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

[Emre Hasegeli]

Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be>:

> 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.
>

This application seems like an SMTP server.
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