Thus spake Sam Varshavchik on Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:42:22PM CDT
> Lindsay Haisley writes:
>
> >I have one list subscriber here who is having some difficulty, probably
> >with
> >an errant spam filter at his ISP, and headers are being improperly modified
> >somewhere, just above a quoted Return-Path header added by courier
> >(">Return-Path:"). This doesn't seem to cause a problem with any other
> >list
> >subscribers, but I did a bit of checking up on the issue.
> >
> >This quote is added by code in submit.C. Is this supported by RFC?
> >According to RFC 2822 (3.6.6) RFC-legal headers in an email which is
>
> 2.2. Header Fields
>
> Header fields are lines composed of a field name, followed by a colon
> (":"), followed by a field body, and terminated by CRLF. A field
> name MUST be composed of printable US-ASCII characters (i.e.,
> characters that have values between 33 and 126, inclusive), except
> colon.
>
>
> The only character prohibited in header names is the colon.
OK, thanks. The 'X-' prefix is defined in RFC822 for use with user-defined
headers, but RFC2822 makes no mention of it. Apparently 2822 is less strict
with regard to user-defined headers.
> Still, due to client breakage, I changed the code recently to use
> "Old-Return-Path".
I'll make this change in submit.C, which is for an earlier version of
courier. I appreciate your attention to this.
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