Re: [Nmh-workers] thread mangling python-list mailing list to comp.lang.python google group

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> Here's an idea.  Ken will like this because there's no indication of how
> the work would get done.  What if nmh warned that a non-RFC-compliant
> header were produced?  It takes care of encoding Subject, etc., at the
> moment, if needed.  It could look out for In-Reply-To, References, etc.,
> and warn or error if they're bad.  Probably not at format time, since
> who knows to what warped ends I'm deploying nmh, but when an email is
> trundling towards being sent.

You don't need to hack nmh for this. Just find (or write) an external 
program that does RFC(pick your favourite) validation, then run your 
message through it at the 'what now?' prompt.