On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:15 PM, alister <alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Mon, 05 May 2014 19:51:15 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I'm working on a Python app that receives an e-mail message via SMTP, >> does some trivial processing on it, and forwards it to another SMTP >> server. >> >> I'd like to do the polite thing and add a "Received:" header, but I >> can't figure out how to get Python's email module to add it in the >> correct place. It always ends up at the "bottom" of the headers below >> From: To: etc. It's supposed to go at the above all the Received: >> headers that where there when I received it. > > Is this required or just being polite? > what I mean is does the standard state the headers must be in a > particular order or can they appear anywhere, you may be spending time > trying to resolve an issue that does not need fixing.
Yes, it's required. RFC 2821 [1] section 3.8.2 says "prepend". ChrisA [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
