[SA-exim] Re: Bug#246715: sa-exim: network checks are failing because headers are incomplete

[Philip Hazel]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> > All this to say that I'd much rather that this unfortunate exim API change
> > be reverted, which in real life means that it becomes an option so that
> > local_scan plugins can get the original (wanted) behaviour again.

Having thought about this, it seemed to me to be "correct" that the time
in the Received: header really should be the time of final acceptance,
not the time the message started to be received. So I would not want to
revert to the previous behaviour, and I think an option would just be
another complication that could be confusing.

> Why not generate a received header right at the start, just as it used
> to.
> Then at the end of reception overwrite this header with a new copy of
> the received header, so getting the new timing and features.

That is a bright idea, Nigel. Thanks for suggesting it.

I will look into it, but I don't know when, because I'm going to be away
a lot in the next couple of months.

Philip

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