David,
Just so you know, I am doing this all for you (your email server
rejects all my replies, that's why I never get to answer anything :)
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Matt Sealey <matt@???>
Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org]
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:45 AM
> To: matt@???
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Adding missing Message-Id header for
> Outlook 2003(AUTHENTICATED) users
>
> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 08:48 -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> > Is there any way I can reliably add a Message-Id header to outgoing
> > mails (my Outlook -> my Exim [HERE]-> internet relays) for Outlook
> > 2003 "compatibility"?
> >
> > I can generate any crap to insert into the header but I think
> > Message-Id needs to be unique in a way that I cannot work
> out how to generate it.
> > I've just been fighting with broken References and
> In-Reply-To mails
> > in a message forum so I would like to do it properly and not cause
> > myself more problems in the future by generating non-unique Ids.
> >
> > I guess what I need is.. some extra-long
> including-microseconds time
> > stamp that I can attain from in the Exim config file,
> base64 encode it
> > or something for simple obfuscation, which I can then
> prepend to the
> > hostname of the sending machine?
>
> Exim will use its own internal message-id (prepended to the
> hostname) if you use 'control=submission'. See the 'control' modifier
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_39.html#IX2464
> and also the 'message_id_header_text' and 'message_id_header_domain'
> options.
>
> My config predates that option so still does it the old way:
>
> warn hosts = +relay_hosts
> condition = ${if !def:h_Message-ID: {1}}
> message = Message-ID: <E$message_id@$primary_hostname>
> warn hosts = +relay_hosts
> condition = ${if !def:h_Date: {1}}
> message = Date: $tod_full
>
>
>
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> dwmw2
>
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