evolution header: Mime-version: 1.0

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu Jun 4 07:30:42 UTC 2009


Am Mittwoch, den 03.06.2009, 10:09 -0700 schrieb Johannes Erdfelt:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009, Christoph Höger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > I see a small problem with evolution when sending to mailinglists. 
> > Obviously evolution puts: Mime-version: 1.0 in the header, hypermail
> > searches for MIME-version: and cannot find that string. So it adds it.
> > In turn my mail provider bounces the return message that should be sent
> > to me complaining about duplicate header field.
> > 
> > So who is wrong here? Hypermail or evolution? Is non uppercase letter
> > Mime-version allowed? Anyone knowing the answer?
> 
> Hypermail.
> 
> Headers should be matched in a case insensitive manner.
> 
> JE

Where do you get that conclusion from? I can only cite RFC 2045 which
says:

> Messages composed in accordance with this document MUST include such
>    a header field, with the following verbatim text:
> 
>      MIME-Version: 1.0


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