[Users] User-Agent header instead of X-Newsreader

Paul paul at claws-mail.org
Thu Sep 22 09:32:52 UTC 2022


On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:24:13 +0000
Marco <mo01 at posteo.de> wrote: 

> Claws Mail inserts a non-standard header for Newsgroups:
> X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.0.0 (GTK+ 3.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> 
> The RFC recommends User-Agent: instead of X-Newsreader:
> 
> ftp://ietf.org/rfc/rfc5536.html#section-3.2.13
> 
> Is there anything against to change that behavior in Claws Mail?

It's only a recommendation.

If you don't want to send the X-Newsreader header use the account preferences
to turn it off, and you can also add a User-Agent header instead if you want.
See the 'Send' page of the account preferences.

with regards

Paul


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