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From: edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: summary: how to generate headers in elm
Keywords: headers elm elmheaders .elm
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Date: 10 Aug 90 19:22:47 GMT
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In <2044@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes:

   | Thanks to fhg@mace.cc.purdue.edu (James F. Blake) for explaining how
   | to make Elm automatically include special headers in messages.  It's
   | easy!  Just create a ".elm/elmheaders" file containing the headers
   | you want to be included.  i.e.
   | 
   | Organization:  Some Company

It's strongly advised to start user defined header line
with "X-", like in:

	X-Organization:  Some Company

Here is what RFC822 "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
Messages" says about this topic:

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
	par. 4.7.5 User-Defined-Field

	   Individual users of network mail are free to define and use
	additional header field. [...] Due to the extension-field
	publishing process, the name of a user-defined-field may be
	pre-empted.

	Note:	The prefatory string "X-" will never be used in the names
		of Extension-fields. This provides user-defined fields with
		a protected set of names.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Please check that Elm includes the "X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL5]" line.


		thanks for your time,
						--[ Edwin ]--
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