https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6443

--- Comment #5 from Mark Martinec <[email protected]> 2010-06-01 19:29:21 
EDT ---
> As I just said, an X-Foo header rule actually matching an X-foo lower-case
> header is not documented (not that I could find it)

It is documented in RFC 5322 (ex RFC 2822), section 1.2.2.
Header field names are case-insensitive.


> and really is useful only
> with headers we do not have control over. That is, even work with headers that
> have been added by external relays and *might* be improperly lower-cased.
> 
> The X-Relay-Countries header, however, is generated by us and guaranteed to be
> upper-cased. No need being liberal about what to accept.

I'd consider case-sensitivity on meta header field names an anomaly.
I don't claim that it should necessarily be fixed, but doing so could
avoid surprises.

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