From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: mbork@mbork.pl, 22754@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22754: 25.1.50; Rmail does not follow RFC 2822
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:23:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oab8k0r9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <osegc43942.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:14:53 -0500)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>, 22754@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:14:53 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> >> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:28:27 +0100
> >>
> >> Rmail inserts lower-case field names in the header, which goes against
> >> RFC 2822 (pp. 22 and 23, see
> >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#page-22). It seems that the problem
> >> affects Cc: and In-reply-to: fields.
> >
> > I use Rmail all the time, and these headers are capitalized in my
> > reply messages. So please provide a recipe starting from "emacs -Q",
> > there could be some other factor at work here.
>
> I assume it was a theoretical analysis...
>
> With sendmail-user-agent, mail-setup inserts "Cc" and "In-reply-to"
> directly (apparently the latter should be "In-Reply-To"?), ignoring the
> case passed via other-headers.
>
> With message-user-agent, message-mail explicitly uses capitalize on all
> headers.
Yes, that's exactly what I saw.
> I suppose there's no guarantee that some other mail-user-agent won't use
> the headers as supplied, but perhaps that would be a bug in the
> user-agent?
If that's the problem, I think we can safely close this bug (perhaps
after fixing the "In-reply-to" letter-case).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-21 10:28 bug#22754: 25.1.50; Rmail does not follow RFC 2822 Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-21 15:42 ` Andy Moreton
2016-02-21 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 18:14 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-22 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-22 20:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-23 0:09 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-23 12:58 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-26 17:43 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-26 18:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-28 3:04 ` Glenn Morris
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