Thunderbird Slayer ! URGENT

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:33:54PM +0300, Peter wrote:
> I changed something in the message id generation and I made a small 
> mistake (printing from the wrong buffer). It is fixed now. RFC822 email 
> is so broken you don't want to know about it. The Thunderbird 'slaying' 
> was an accident, I do not use Thunderbird and it took two weeks for 
> things to connect here. Missing threads on gmane, tlug email acting up, 
> and mailman acting up on another list. Then W. O'Higgins mailed me and 
> told me I have messages with dup ids and I said 'impossible' but I 
> checked and he was right. It took between the 8th of April when I made 
> the borked change and the 29th when he mailed me to clear the smoke. It 
> is fixed now. The bug did not affect pine and other MUAs and mailing 
> lists. mailman seems to have a problem with it, as does gmane, and in 
> fact anything that relies on message ids to avoid duplicates. Of course 
> threading by message id will break like this. If that is any 
> consolation, most spam I receive on the same topic, has dup ids. On the 
> other hand, the Thunderbird slaying bug only happens when the messages 
> with the same id are answered (i.e. are in a thread). Then, there will 
> be at least one message referring to itself (message-id appears in 
> references). That's what slays the bird. It now has a bugtraq number and 
> it should be fixed soon, it's probably trivial to fix (check 
> own-message-id against references and prune if present - then thread by 
> subject not by references).

Well does RFC2822 say anything different about it given 822 is obsolete?

Nifty side effect your small bug had, and I guess it found a bug in
thunderbird no one had thought to try.

Lennart Sorensen
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