[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#1009174: Bug#1009174: request-tracker4: disordering of email headers in forwarded messages

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:59:06AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić via pkg-request-tracker-maintainers wrote:
> Package: request-tracker4
> Version: 4.4.1-3+deb9u3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> RT changes the original order of email headers when forwarding attached emails.
> This is seen in case the original message was offered to RT with a leading unix
> style From_ header.  This behaviour causes havoc in case the full mime message
> later gets analysed by strict spam scanners who interpret mime-included message
> headers.

Thanks for the detailed report!

4.4.1 is now very old from an upstream point of view (and indeed even
in Debian that's from an LTS only release now).

Have you been able to reproduce this with a newer release such as
4.4.5 (which is in sid/testing)? I don't have a suitable test system
for this at the moment, unfortunately (I'm not using RT at all any more).

If it can be reproduced with 4.4.5 I think this report would be in a
good state to forwards upstream.

Cheers
Dominic