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

[Sander van Dinten]

On Sun, 2022-04-17 at 20:40 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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
> 
Hi Dominic,

I have been able to reproduce this with request-tracker4 4.4.5+dfsg-1
on a debian:sid
docker container the same way I reproduced it on stretch earlier.

Thanks,
Sander
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