[Pan-users] possible minor bug in pan

[Søren Boll Overgaard]

Hi,

Recently a bug was reported against the version of pan currently in
Debian, which points out that duplicate custom headers are nuked by pan
before posting. I've been trawling RFC's but I can't seem to figure out
if that is standards complian behaviour, or if multiple instances of the
same header is actually allowed.

All I came up with was this:

5. Mandatory Headers
An  article MUST have one, and only one, of each of the fol-
lowing headers: Date, From, Message-ID, Subject, Newsgroups, Path.

I am assuming that the "problem" in pan is due to pan adding custom
headers to a hash-table during the process of posting, causing only the
last of any duplicate headers to survive?

Could someone please enlighten me on whether this is a bug or a feature?

Thanks.

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