Re: [Evolution] Evolution generating invalid message-ids

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

So where's the bit in the email that relates to the subject of the
message?

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 10:13, Richard Zach wrote:
> Just FYI:  Balsa had a similar problem--compuserve.de wasn't accepting
> messages for delivery if they have a Message-ID.  In the ensuing
> discussion, the possibility of adding a config option "Do not generate
> Message-ID" was considered. It wasn't implemented. The thread starts
> here:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2001-December/msg00009.html
>
> Jamie Zawinski wrote something for DRUMS on message-id's:
> http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-message-id-01.txt
> (I know this is an Internet Draft and there's no reason whatsoever to
> do anything recommended there--other than that Jamie Zawinski is a
> pretty bright guy.)
>
> > From what Matt Curtin and he are saying, it's clear that they take
> "globally unique" in RFC 822 to mean actually unique, not just unique
> for the generating host.  They suggest to use the host/domain part of
> the user's address as a fallback if you can't get the FQDN of the host.
> They also say that "use of an unqualified hostname for the domain part 
> of the Message-ID header would be foolish, and should never be done." 
> By extension, I take it, using "localhost" or "localhost.localdomain" 
> for the rhs of the message-id would not be advisable.
>
> -R
>
>
>
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