Almost a converted Postfix user testing Exim 4.41 (no Exiscan) on a
Slackware 10 box (sweet).
Understand that it is up to the MUA to write the Message-ID.
Unfortunately, in our case different MUAs write different (or no)
Message-IDs. Looking for:
<[maybe date and time][random characters]@fqdn>
Thought that there had to be a way that Exim, like Postfix, would
automatically add a Message-ID to outgoing messages in those instances
where (a) there was no original Message-ID, or (b) where the original
Message-ID header was intentionally removed.
Read the Spec and discovered that it just ain't so (except under very
limited circumstances -- messages received through the Sendmail alias
only).
Googling gave me half an answer.
Here are the two settings that I finally added at the end of the dnslookup
router (before "no_more") to accomplish my goal:
headers_remove = Message-ID
#
headers_add = Message-ID: <E$message_id@$primary_hostname>
(Thank you Tor Slettnes
http://slett.net/spam-filtering-for-mx/index.html
for the last setting [although not exactly related to what I was looking
for it did furnish half the answer].)
Anyways, now it works like a champ -- all Message-IDs are uniform.
Will these two settings result in buggy behavior, burn up the
motherboard, melt the polar ice caps, or am I safe?
Thank you in advance!
Jack
