[rt-users] why does RT alter the mail header order?

[Jesse Vincent]

On Tue 27.Jan'09 at 11:59:39 -0800, Jo Rhett wrote:
> Why does RT alter the mail header ordering?   If we get spam sent to  
> RT I'd like to build a Scrip to report the spam, but it appears that  
> RT is so misordering the mail headers that this becomes impossible.
>
> They aren't alphabetical... or really anything I can find.   They  
> appear to be completely random.

Last time this came up, I found the reference in RFC822 or 2822 that
said that headers weren't technically an ordered list.  

RT doesn't intentionally massage the header order, but either MIME::Tools or
RT, stores them as a hash at some point....
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