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

Jo Rhett jrhett at netconsonance.com
Tue Jan 27 15:11:35 EST 2009


On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> Last time this came up, I found the reference in RFC822 or 2822 that
> said that headers weren't technically an ordered list.

Yes, but in practice everyone has shifted away from this.   Received  
header ordering is absolutely necessary for proper spam reporting.

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


I'll dig into this.

Is there any place that RT stores the original, unaltered message?

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness





More information about the rt-users mailing list