Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position?

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From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position?
Date	Wed, 7 May 2014 14:32:43 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-05-07, Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> On 05-05-14 21:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I'm working on a Python app that receives an e-mail message via SMTP,
>> does some trivial processing on it, and forwards it to another SMTP
>> server.
>>
>> I'd like to do the polite thing and add a "Received:" header, but I
>> can't figure out how to get Python's email module to add it in the
>> correct place.  It always ends up at the "bottom" of the headers below
>> From: To: etc.  It's supposed to go at the above all the Received:
>> headers that where there when I received it.
>
> I thought that was the job of the SMTP servers, not of email
> applications.

Exactly.  And the SMTP server I'm writing uses the email module to
manipulate headers as messages are processed.

> So I'm not sure that what you want to do is the polite thing to do.

Why not?

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Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-05 19:51 +0000
  Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-05 13:01 -0700
    Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-05 20:58 +0000
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-05-05 16:09 -0500
        Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-06 02:13 +0000
          Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-06 08:22 +0000
            Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-06 14:12 +0000
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-06 14:16 -0400
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 10:13 +1000
  Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-06 09:15 +0000
    Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-06 19:47 +1000
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-06 10:26 +0000
        Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-06 20:41 +1000
    Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-06 14:15 +0000
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-06 14:19 +0000
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 00:26 +1000
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-06 15:16 +0000
    Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2014-05-06 18:11 +0300
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-06 15:26 +0000
        Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2014-05-07 18:06 +0300
        Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 01:11 +1000
        Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 16:29 -0600
          Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-08 13:28 +0000
            Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 23:47 +1000
            Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-08 06:46 -0700
            Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-05-08 09:50 -0500
              Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-08 18:39 +0000
                Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-05-08 13:48 -0500
                Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-09 14:28 +0000
                Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-05-08 17:00 -0700
  Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-05-07 08:58 +0200
    Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-07 14:32 +0000
      Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-05-08 09:44 +0200
  Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com> - 2014-05-07 11:11 +0300
  Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-05-07 10:57 +0200
    Re: Add "Received:" header to email msg in correct position? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-07 14:33 +0000

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