RE: [exim] Message ID's / Message tracking

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Author: Andrew Johnson
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [exim] Message ID's / Message tracking
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:22 PM
> To: Andrew Johnson
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Message ID's / Message tracking
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Andrew Johnson wrote:
>
> > I have a number of Exim instances running in a load balanced
> > environment that pass the emails through a 3rd party Virus scanning
> > appliance. However the disadvantage of this is that when
> the appliance
> > passes back the email, I get a different Exim Message-ID
> generated. I
> > know I can store the ID in an X-Header, but is there any way of
> > displaying this X-Header in a log file so that I can track
> the message
> > through the logs to see where in the platform the message
> has got to.
>
> There is already a header that does exactly what you want. It
> is called Message-ID. Exim includes it in the <= log line.
> The contents of
> Message-ID: are supposed to be unique for every message. You
> may want to consider what to do if an incoming message does
> not have a Message-ID.
>


That's my problem, it's "supposed" to be unique, and it may not have one at
all... So what I need is a way of either replacing it with the Exim
generated one (And writing that to the log file), or somehow sending the
X-Header where I would put the Exim generated one to the Log file.

-Andy-

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