Mailman strips subject from DMARC messages (was: Re: Fwd:)

Sam Kuper sampablokuper at posteo.net
Tue Feb 16 04:08:36 UTC 2021


On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:49:12PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:24:23PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 02:04:11PM -0400, Remco Rijnders wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, the subject of such messages seems to get cleared.  I
>>> don't think this is something under our control but of the generous
>>> people who host the mutt-users mailing list for the project. Kevin,
>>> do you know if this is anything that can be changed / fixed?
>>
>> Whoops, I missed the fact that the wrapper removes the Subject line
>> too.  That's not convenient at all.  Let me see if there is anything
>> I can do about that.
> 
> I didn't see any options regarding the wrapper Subject header, so I've
> changed the action to munge the From address instead.

Mailman's failure to retain the Subject: header when wrapping a
DMARC message was a bug, and the Mailman maintainer has issued a patch:

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/thread/ZVM6I4UTDKHY4EKNLIBIWE4JNC2PYLIS/

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