Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > The filmscanners list has > relatively weird headers for a list due to using some non-traditional > list software. The headers somewhat look like direct private mail, > which incidentally is what most of the incoming spam looks like. These > headers are marginal for the sorting engine. Mail-Archive will do the > right thing, if it knows there is already a filmscanners archive and > is keeping an eye out for more messages. Otherwise it doesn't > work. Back in May/April there was a big restore from backup, and > during that process, some state information was reset and Mail-Archive > forgot that filmscanners existed. Now that I've manually reminded the > sort engine, filmscanners traffic should sort correctly. But the > engine will forget again if there is no traffic on the list for 21 > days. The best solution is for filmscanners to use more traditional > headers, and in particular it would be nice to see the filmscanners > listname somewhere in to To: or CC: fields. That's the common case, > and the sort engine handles it most efficiently.
Thanks for the explanation Jeff. I'm taking advice about whether I can modify the 'To:' field without breaking my list distribution. But it also occurred to me that I could add a custom header , eg:- 'Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' This link would seem very beneficial for my users, and a good ad for mail-archive.com , but could also provide an automated means of creating a whitelist for mail-archive.com since such a header will never appear in spam or Trojan distributions. The downside is persuading all listowners to do likewise, and having to add the code. I've added the header anyway. Regards Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
