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Re: header != RFC compliant?

2004-01-05 21:19:06
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:54, Mark Foster wrote:
Don't recall if this has been covered before, but I'm wondering if, in light
of the recently discussed intentions in pursuing official RFC status, should
 the Received-SPF: header recommendation be X-Received-SPF: instead?

No. RFC 2822 (obsoletes 822) doesn't even mention X- headers. Any
header that's not defined in that RFC is referred to as an "optional
field" (RFC 2822, section 3.6.8). The prevailing idea also seems to
be that X- headers used outside of confined environments are always
(or at least very often) a "bad thing". Anyone interested in the
arguments should check out the last few days of traffic on the
ietf-822 mailing list:

http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/mail-archive/maillist.html


        Bob

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