[leafnode-list] Re: mail2news

[Joerg Dietrich]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:54:52AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Out of curiosity: what features make it require Python 2.3 over the (as
> yet) more common 2.2?

tempfile.mkdtemp(), which is of course trivial to replace by
something else or do a version check.

There is a problem that leads to the loss of email which I
attribute to leafnode being overly restrictive:

nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError
441 Invalid header "Message-ID:
<1081904429.3548.6850.camel at localhost.localdomain>", article not
posted

441 Invalid header "Message-ID:
<1081922545.30226.102.camel at bach>", article not posted

and a few others. While these are certainly not valid Message-ID:
headers because the fqdn is not a fqdn, accepting these messages
causes no harm. The only ones who can be affected by this
misconfiguration are the people with the same misconfiguration. I
see no technical reason not to accept these articles (and authors
of other NNTP servers apparently think the same).

-- Jo:rg

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