Re: Haeaderadd and the message archive

Bruce,
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:33:28AM -0700, David I. Bell wrote:
> > Is there a reason why the headers from headeradd should not (must
> > not?) be inserted into the message before the message is put in the
> > archive?
> 
> I don't recall ever hearing a reason one way or another.  I too have
> observed that behavior, and it has been that way for as long as I can
> remember.  Most likely it was considered desireable to maintaine a
> pristine copy of the distributed email (including Received: headers
> that are normally stripped from outgoing emails) for a variety of
> purposes.

This is what I guessed about the Received: headers, too. This is
definitely not information you want to lose. However, if you anonymise
a list and strip From: it gets stripped from the archived message, too.
IMHO, it here doesn't make sense that it is still indexed with
a sender on it.

Cheers,
Christian