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

-- 
Antoon Pardon