On 27 May 1999, Stan Ryckman <stanr(_at_)sunspot(_dot_)tiac(_dot_)net> wrote:
At 02:57 AM 5/28/99 +0300, Liviu Daia wrote:
2. ^FROM (as apposed to ^From:) - Checks "From:", "Resent-by" and
similar header lines. True or False.
[*Sigh*] False, please RTFM. Unlike ^FROM_DAEMON and
^FROM_MAILER, ^FROM has no special meaning. If you are doing
case-insensitive matching, it will match "From " and "From:" lines,
and that's all.
Well, yes, it has no special meaning; however, it technically *can*
match other header lines, such as:
Fromage: cheddar
which, though there aren't any among RFC-specified headers, aren't
"illegal."
IIRC, the RFC-blessed convention is that all non-standard headers
should have names starting with "X-".
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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