On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:10:27PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > No, its an optional setting with default to "off" > where did you find it? i'm unable to do so with current HEAD.
> because the kmail programmers realized (back in KDE2.2.2) that not the > MUA is responsible for the Message-ID but the first MTA. > nonsense. this would cancel any sensible threading of your own messages. heuristic methods as somebody else suggested are time-consuming and error-prone. therefore all useful muas generate msgids themselves. true is that the mta should set an msgid if it is missing - but it should not be missing in the first place. > Why? Because all dial-up computers create non-unique Message-ID > because it cannot be assured that the servername part of the > Message-ID is unique (mostly, a local dummy name is chosen). > that's a pretty weak argument. the probability of a clash is simply ridiculous. greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.
