Re: bug with the Message-ID ?

[Peter Rexigel <RexigelP compuserve de>]

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.

Does this mean that I cannot use Balsa to send email with compuserve as
ISP?
btw.: the same problem is with kmail: it generates also such a
Message-ID in the email-header and the sending is refused.


> > 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?

Good question.

thanks

Peter