[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Spammers; and Freeciv Jitterbug system

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cameron Morland <cjmorlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It would be much easier to deal with these bastards if the headers on the
> emails were retained; would it be possible to arrange that?

I believe the problematic cases are the ones forwarded via Freeciv's
Jitterbug bug tracking system.  Unfortunately Jitterbug's forwarding 
is rather simplistic: it basically creates a new mail message, using 
the old body and a _limited_ number of headers based on the old headers.

(I guess this is a simple way to try avoid the problem of Jitterbug 
doing something bad based on strange headers in the input.)

One workaround is to find the original message in Jitterbug
(http://www.freeciv.org/cgi-bin/bugs, look under "trash" for spam),
and select the message and then select "Full Headers"...

Peronally I would favour Freeciv moving to a bug tracking system 
which is more actively maintained than Jitterbug...

-- David