--On 24 February 2009 12:22:13 +0000 Alain Williams <addw@???>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just had someone 'phone me up complaining that mail to me was bouncing,
> ... long story short here is the message in the error log.
>
> 2009-02-24 11:49:52 1LbvnM-0002Zg-Su H=lon-gs3dmrelay.mistral.net
> [217.154.246.188] F=<jonb@???> rejected after DATA: RFC2822 says
> that all mail SHOULD have a Message-ID header.
>
> This is caused by a trap in acl_check_data (acl_smtp_data) of:
> deny condition = ${if !def:h_Message-ID: {1}}
> message = RFC2822 says that all mail SHOULD have a
> Message-ID header.\n\ Most messages without it are
> spam, so your mail has been rejected.
>
> Just a request for comments, should I be doing this sort of thing ?
As long as you're encouraging authors of mail clients to fix their
software, why not?
> I don't see errors like this very often.
When you do, are they spam?
>
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> Alain Williams
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