On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Carl Tashian wrote:
> I don't read sendmail.cfs very often, but this looks like a regexp
> that requires < > around the message id field of an incoming message?
RFC 2822 (and 822 before it) require < > round message ids.
> The Message-Id: field generated by my exim never has < > around it,
I'm afraid I don't believe that. Exim has always generated valid
Message-id: header lines. But it only does so if the incoming message
doesn't have one. So I suspect that whatever created the message
generated this bad line:
> Message-Id: 2002-08-06.651157@???
When Exim generates a Message-Id, it put an Exim message identifier
before the @ sign, so that *definitely* wasn't generated by Exim.
> and I'm wondering if this is causing MIT's server to complain? I've
> never seen problems like this delivering to any other server.
Maybe MIT are tightening up on syntax. IMHO we would have had a lot less
trouble if servers had all be much stricter from the start (20 years
ago). It's a bit late now.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
