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

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andrew Johnson
CC: exim-users
Subject: RE: [exim] Message ID's / Message tracking
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Andrew Johnson wrote:

> 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.


Replacing an existing Message-ID: is a Bad Idea, since it is supposed to
uniquely identify a message. Adding one when there is none is trivial,
and has been discussed on this list before.

Adding your own X-Header and writing it to the log file is trivial in a
DATA ACL. However, it would be in a separate log line, not in the <=
line that would follow.

Making sure there is no such X-Header in incoming messages
from outside is easy if you can easily identify "outside" hosts (e.g. by
IP address).

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