On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> 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
(snip)
> (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... ;-)
It would gain me the ability to still receive bounces from others' qmails
even when I'm sending mail from machines where the sysadmins refuse
Message-ID-less mail on the basis that it's probably spam! (-:
-- Mark
