On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:26:38AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > My deepest apologies for asking this here, but very desperate, and I > thought what more better place to ask an email question than in a MTA > mailing list. > I have to have perl create and send an email for my app. In the email > structure I need to have a tag to hold a reference number. > so my question is, can I just insert a tag in the mail headers ( I > assume is must be before the subject), or is any rules that need to be > followed before doing so. > I basically want my mail structure to be as so. > > =========================================== > from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-TAG: 1234567890 > Subject: This is a mail structure I hoping will work. > This is the body of the message. > =========================================== > > I obviously dont want to X-TAG to be seen by the recipent, only in the > raw email viewing can it be seen.
This looks pretty sane to me. I don't think it HAS to be before the subject, just as long as it is part of the headers. Putting it at the end of the headers is common, but I don't think there's a rule.. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
