From: Lars Hecking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I am new on this list and also a new user of mutt.
> >
> > I haven't found anything in the 'manual.txt' about handling
> > extra-headers like 'Troll' or 'X-Troll' ones. May be I haven't look at
> > the right place ?
>
> 'Troll:' is not a legal RCF 822 header. User defined or eXtension headers
> must start with X-.
That's the common impression, but it's wrong.
The latest draft of the update to rfc 822 by the IETF wg makes
no mention of the X-. It was intended to seperate public and
private extensions, i.e. any x-* headers would never become
standard. However, people used it for any non-standard header.
This had the unfortuneate side-effect that headers like x-mailer
that become common practice CAN'T be standardized, which is
bad: one goal of standardization is to support common practice :-(.
It's also lead to garbage like the use of BOTH Status and
X-Status as common headers in mailboxes to track the read/etc.
status of messages. Yuck.
Sam
