Author: Chris Thompson Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [EXIM] How to add date&time to the subject ?
Alistair Mann <netadmin@???> writes: > Thus spaketh Greg A. Woods on Tuesday 12 November 2002 07:55 pm:
> > [ On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 20:31:56 (+0100), Hartwig, Rainer wrote:
> > ]
> >
> > > Subject: [EXIM] How to add date&time to the subject ?
> > >
> > > I'm a new in exim.
> > > I want to add date and time to the subject to all incomming mails in the
> > > form of
> > > "this is the old subject" -> "[YYYYMMDD-HHMISS] this is the old
> > > subject"
> > > But all replys to a "changed" Mail should not be converted.
> >
> > Please don't ever make any mail transport system modify the subject line.
>
> Where an MUA has limited filtering capabilties (for instance, OE cannot handle
> X- header filtering), subject modification is the lesser against another
> evil: body modification.
It can be a right pain when such subject field modification is imposed
on users who aren't using the crippled MUA as well as those that are,
though.
A certain company (not a million miles from Cambridge and named after a
body part) have apparently done this, with some sort of "SPAM?" indicator
being added to the subject header. The employee I was talking to wasn't
too pleased about it ...
