Re: [exim] at what point does exim generate a message ID?

B. Johannessen wrote:
> Ian P. Christian wrote:
>> rejected. Other then moving the HELO checking to be called from
>> check_message ACL, is there a way I can get exim to generate an ID on
>> connect ?
>
> Exim needs to generate a new message ID for each message it receives,
> and it may receive more then one message per connection. It therefore
> doesn't make much sense to generate the message ID at the HELO/EHLO
> point in the conversation.

Good point - but wouldn't then a connection-id be a useful thing to have?

> It would however make sense to do it at each MAIL step, and there is
> currently a wish-list item for this:

Thanks for that, I'll watch out for that.


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