[Mimedefang] From header information

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> $entity->head->get("From") will return whatever is in From header in
> filter, filter_multipart and filter_end.  You can't use it in
> filter_begin (it is not defined there).  Of course, you can use
> $entity->head->get() function to get value of any header.  Note that you
> will need at least MIMEDefang 2.48 to use this (it was broken in
> previous versions).

In previous versions (and 2.48, for that matter), you can open the
file ./HEADERS and parse it.  It's guaranteed to contain one header per
line.  However, in 2.48, you might as well use $entity->head->get() which
has already parsed the headers.

Regards,

David.