[dev] smtp headers format...

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Marc Jauvin <marc at r4l.com>:

> Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Marc Jauvin <marc at r4l.com>:
>>
>>> Any reason the SMTP headers generated by Horde look like:
>>>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>>>          charset=ISO-8859-1;
>>>          format="flowed"
>>>
>>> Instead of:
>>>
>>> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Those aren't SMTP Headers - that is a MIME header.  And the answer
>> because it is easier to do it that way.
>
> OK, MIME headers... my bad. As long as it's still RFC compliant, I
> guess this is also easier to read.

It is RFC compliant.  The main advantage is that we don't have to do  
complex character counting to make sure we have less than 78  
characters per line.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]