Re: Majordomo and gmail

If the majordomo system is running on Linux, you could use procmail to 
check for the header and then either remove or change the ID. A simple 
recipe to do that might look something like:

:0 fw
* ^From:.*@gmail.com
|sed -e 's/^IDHeader:[ ]*/IDHeader: [add text here] /'

I'm not completely sure this would work, but it has as much a chance as 
anything I can thing of.

Hopefully,

Karl


On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Randall Belk wrote:

> I maintain a majordomo server for an organization that recently switched to
> Google Apps for email.
> With their old email provider they would send an email to one of the lists
> and as the emails were sent out by the server they would get their own email
> back.  They came to depend on this "Feature" as confirmation that everything
> was working.
>
> Gmail looks at an incoming message and determines (by message-id I think) if
> this is a message that  originated within the destination account and drops
> it if it did.  The result is that everybody thinks the server isn't working
> when actually it is because they don't get a mail back.  I'm pretty sure
> gmail is keying on the id because I can change other parameters of the
> message (title, add footer, reply-to, etc) but the message still gets
> dropped because the id is the same.
>
> Has anyone dealt with this issue in the past?  After allot of thinking and
> searching I haven't come up with a nice solution.  I think mailman and maybe
> majordomo 2 both have an 'ack' feature, but I would hate to have to change
> systems entirely just to get it.
>
> Randall
>