Re: Headeradd and the message archive

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:56:53 -0600
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> It sounds like what you want is to store the message in the archive
> exactly as it was received (so the administrator has access to it in
> its pre-munged state for tracking problems, etc), and the
> headerremove/headeradd stuff is done on any archive retrieval
> requests, to prevent unwanted information leaks.

Personally I would not care about what is preserved in the archived
messages and what doesn't. I log everything I need through scripts that
gt called from .qmail-xyz, anyway. However, I always rebuild the index
before I create a digest because I would always end up with sender names
in the index of the digest when I didn't. While these names are not in
the archive, they do make it into the index first. The only annoying
thing is, hat because the new From: is not added in my separate run of
ezmlm-idx, either, I will have no from which means that the index will
not be properly parsed later and I will get a bunch of empty entries
only. It then looks like shown in my first post in this thread.

Cheers,
Christian