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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [Updated Patch] Make domain-part of message-id configurable.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:57:25PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On (2002/11/09 15:03), Andreas Metzler wrote:

[...]
>> +message_id_header_domain  Type: string*  Default: unset
>> +
>> +    If this variable is set, the string is expanded and used as
>> +    right hand side (domain-part) of the Message-id: header that
>> +    Exim creates if an incoming message does not have one. If this
>> +    is unset the primary hostname will be used. Only the characters
>> +    A-Z, a-z, 0-9, . and - are accepted, all others are replaced by
>> +    hyphens.


> I'd feel more comfortable deferring a message if the expanded value of
> message_id_header_domain contains illegal characters.


Hello,
That is what message_id_header_text does, too (although it accepts
more characters). And changing it to deferral is probably to involved
for me - I am not familiar enough with exim's code and actually don't
plan to become it.

> Nevertheless, it's an option I could use. Nice idea.


I've used it for some time with exim3, as a nice side effect you can
use it to generate M-IDs whose domain-part is no valid domain-part for
e-mails. - You won't get any spam sent to message-ids in your
catchall-mailbox.
                 cu andreas
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