Re: [exim] host part of message-id

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Author: Hanspeter Roth
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] host part of message-id
On Oct 18 at 09:54, Philip Hazel spoke:

> 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.


Oh, yes!
I'm using mutt and I had forgotten to set the hostname
parameter in it's configuration.

-Hanspeter