Re: bug with the Message-ID ?

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:56:08PM +0100, Jens Askengren wrote:
> On sun, 2001-12-02 at 21:30, M. Thielker wrote:
> 
> > > > netscape: Message-ID: <3BF223EC.F2514A11@compuserve.de>
> > > > balsa:    Message-ID: <3BF223EC.F2514A11@Hugo.comic.net>
> 
> 
> > The message ID is in fact generated by Compuserve not Netscape. NS will 
> > submit the message without a message ID while Balsa does generate one. CIS 
> > sees that as relaying and rejects the message, as far as I (also a 
> > Compuserve subscriber) know.
> > To allow for such braindead mail servers, there really needs to be an 
> > option to generate _no_ message ID
> 
> Why do we generate a message id when this seems to be causing trouble
> and mailservers add it anyway?
> 

Cause mailservers aren't supposed to message-id headers.
a little preaching here brian ? :)

cheers

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