Re: [exim] host part of message-id

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] host part of message-id
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Hanspeter Roth wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have Exim installed in a Cygwin Environment. primary_hostname =
> primary_hostname.
> But the host part of the message-id is hostname instead of
> primary_hostname.
> How can I make the host part to be primary_hostname?


The Message-ID: header line should normaly be constructed by the MUA
that creates the message. For a locally-submitted message, Exim will add
a Message-ID: if it is not present. I suspect you MUA is constructing
it, and Exim is leaving it alone.


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