Re: Number of occurrences of headers

Julien ÉLIE <julien@trigofacile.com> Sat, 16 January 2010 17:23 UTC

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>> As far as I understand, every field defined in these RFCs can be used 0
>> or 1 time in an article, except for Comments: and Original-Sender:
>> which can be used an unlimited number of times.
>
> I haven't checked RFC 5322 for the headers defined there, but that sounds
> right.
>
>> Regarding Original-Sender:, isn't one time enough?
>
> Normally, yes, but it wouldn't be in pathological gatewaying situations
> where an article was gatewayed multiple times.

OK, thanks Russ.  I have just implemented the required change in the
latest development version of INN so as not to mention these two headers
(otherwise, multiple occurrences are not allowed).

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Julien ÉLIE

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