[mso] Re: Email Header Information

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:38:33 -0600, James S. Huggins (MSO)
<MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> ==========================
> >
> > Using Outlook (03), how do I edit the email header information of outgoing
> > emails?
> 
> What do you want to edit?  What are you trying to hide?
> ==========================
> 
> In some cases, I would like to add the List-ID header specified in RFC 2919
> (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2919.html )
> 
> In some cases, I would like to add the standard headers specified in RFC 2369
> (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html )
> 
> Finally, in some cases, I would like to add some X-Fields (X-Headers or User
> Defined Headers) in the header info.
> 
> Some side notes on User Defined Headers:
> 
> RFC 822 (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html) provided for "user defined
> fields" in email headers. The RFC said:
> 
> ==========
> 4.7.5. USER-DEFINED-FIELD
> 
> Individual users of network mail are free to define and use additional header
> fields. Such fields must have names which are not already used in the current
> specification or in any definitions of extension-fields, and the overall
> syntax of these user-defined-fields must conform to this specification's rules
> for delimiting and folding fields. 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.
> ==========
> 
> Note that "X-" is a reserved string to enable people to create their own user
> defined fields, without worrying that these fields would conflict with any
> standard fields. These are sometimes called X-Headers or X-Fields.
> 
> RFC 822 has been obsoleted by RFC 2822 (see
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html). And, unfortunately, RFC 2822 did not
> include the specification of X-Headers. This "flaw" in RFC 2822 has been
> commented on in several places on the net. (See, for example,
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2003-05/1654.html )
> 
> Nevertheless, the use of X-Fields or X-Headers remains common.

You should be able to do this with Postfix as your outbound SMTP server.

...D
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