Author: Sheldon Hearn Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] [Updated Patch] Make domain-part of message-id configurable.
On (2002/11/11 15:00), Philip Hazel wrote:
> The message-id header is generated while a message is being received. It
> is done if the message doesn't already have one - in other words, Exim
> is doing a "fix up" of a slightly broken message. Because the message
> hasn't actually been received at this time, it would be difficult to
> defer it, especially as there is no subsequent mechanism for changing
> the generated header line.
Okay. Well, as the poster of the patch points out,
message_id_header_text doesn't defer either, so it's probably best that
the new option match this behaviour.
