Re: [exim] Adding missing Date and Message-ID headers toSMTP…

On 2006-07-04, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity, why does Exim's default behaviour (using a vanilla
>> config file) accept a message without Date and Message-ID headers and
>> relay it without adding them? Does adding "control = submission" have
>> any other, possibly undesirable, effects?
>
> Because it is confusing if it adds them, and (when relaying) contrary to
> RFC 2821. (It used to; the change was made at release 4.30).

Thanks for the explanation, and for confirming that it's not my
imagination telling me Exim used to do it.