Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!dptcdc!berner!lethe!drew
From: drew@lethe.UUCP (Drew Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Message Headers
Keywords: RFC822
Message-ID: <2308@lethe.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 12:55:07 GMT
Organization: Systems Software
Lines: 23

I was testing some auto-mated mailer script and noticed that
elm was generating the headers for mail messages in the wrong order.
[Based on RFC822 dated Aug 13, 1982, Page 17 -- (4.) Message Specification]
	
+-------------------------------------- Sample of current order
| From news Mon Apr 24 08:42:51 1989
| Subject: test
| To: uucp@lethe.UUCP (uucp files)
| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 8:42:49 EDT
| From: Drew Sullivan <news@lethe.UUCP>
| X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL0]
| 
| test 
+--------------------------------------

The recommened order is:
	Return-Path:,  Received:,  Date:,  From:,  Subject:,  
	Sender:,  To:,  Cc:,  ...

Basically the Date:, and From: lines should be moved before the
Subject lines.
-- 
  -- Drew Sullivan, <drew@lethe.uucp>