[Mailman-Developers] Headers and footers not appearing

[Nick Simicich]

All headers should not be case sensitive, so far as I know.

This is right out of RFC822:

 >     3.4.7.  CASE INDEPENDENCE
 >
 >        Except as noted, alphabetic strings may be represented in  any
 >        combination of upper and lower case.  The only syntactic units
 >
 >     August 13, 1982              - 14 -                      RFC #822
 >
 >     Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages
 >
 >        which requires preservation of case information are:
 >
 >                    -  text
 >                    -  qtext
 >                    -  dtext
 >                    -  ctext
 >                    -  quoted-pair
 >                    -  local-part, except "Postmaster"

Unless I am mistaken, this does not define any fields or sub-field names as 
case dependent.  Those comparisons should all be done independent of 
case.  Now if you are noting that the subject field is case independent, 
then you are probably right, subject is defined as "text".

At 11:30 AM 2002-03-11 +0900, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John W Baxter <John> writes:
>
>     John> You're posting as
>
>     John> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>
>     John> Question for the gurus: could the upper case content type
>     John> description be causing problems here?
>
>It very well could be.  The problem is that *some* headers
>are case-sensitive (like Subject) and others are not
>(like Content-Type).  I haven't been putting in random
>.lower() calls on every string, so we'll probably run
>into some of these issues.
>
>Barry, do you think the email module should just deal with
>this somehow?
>
>Ben
>
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