On Wed, Aug 08 2012, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote: > For the From/Date headers see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt > section 3.6 for details: > > The only required header fields are the origination date field and > the originator address field(s). All other header fields are > syntactically optional. > > and origination date field means a Date: header, and originator > address field means a From: header. However, I don't think an empty > string is valid for either of these so we can't sensibly output > something standards compliant. Thus I would go for following the > original message and omit any fields not present in it.
I agree. Let's not pretend or imply something is valid when it's not. The output should reflect the actual content of the message as much as possible. jamie. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20120808/b504e295/attachment.pgp>
