On 1999-06-08T16:53:04,
Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The sysadmin of one of the machines I receive mail on will soon be
> rejecting messages that have no Message-ID, as apparently virtually all
> such mail that comes in with no Message-ID is unsolicited spam.... with
> the surprising exception of qmail bounce messages. Sure, I know that
> there's no requirement to include a Message-ID line, but isn't it
> eminently sensible to?
I wrote a "NetiquetteEnforcer" script which I use in conjunction with ezmlm to
check for specific, uhm, misunderstandings on the senders part (all windows
are 160 characters wide etc), and also to check the mail as per RFC822 (at
least somewhat).
Basically, there are some programs out there which do not include a Message-Id
- I had such a case comeing in from a popular German mail service
(gmx.de/net), and RFC822 says Message-Id is optional.
While I personally think thats a bug and should be made mandatory, I am not
sure what a message-id would gain you in an automatic bounce. Especially with
qmail, which does not log the message-id header anyway... ;-)
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Br�e
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Lars Marowsky-Br�e
Network Management
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