Re: [Exim] Proper autoresponder behavior

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Mark Morley
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Proper autoresponder behavior
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Mark Morley wrote:

> According to RFC 2822, which Greg says is flat out wrong on other points
> so it probably is on this one too, blocks of resent-* headers MUST always
> be added at the top, so that the most recent instance of resending is
> located first.


Indeed. But have you seen what some user agents actually do? Not to
mention some MTAs. A while back I got some people to do experiments, and
all sorts of things turned up. Like amalgamating sets of resent-
headers. I wouldn't trust the order one little bit.


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