On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 16:15, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Does anyone have a good source of information on how to build a mailing
> list manager? Basically I am looking for a description of how the
> custom headers are used.
List-* headers have their own RFC - RFC 2369
Other information on them can be found at
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.001.htp
MLMs generally do little else with headers, the ones I can think of
off-hand are:-
- strip and replace Precedence: with Precedence: list/bulk
- strip return-receipt headers (only done in a few cases)
- maybe check that the list is in the destination headers
- maybe tamper with Sender/Errors-To headers
Some lists also override the From:/To:/Cc: headers, but thi sis for
specialist sitations and not normally a good idea.
delivery normally requires overriding of the envelope sender address,
and passing a number of envelope recipient addresses in.
Anything else RFC-wise is likely to be covered in 2821 and 2822
Nigel.
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