Re: [exim] Missing Message-ID header

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Author: Alain Williams
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To: Ian Eiloart
CC: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [exim] Missing Message-ID header
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:30:16PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:

> As long as you're encouraging authors of mail clients to fix their
> software, why not?


Or people to upgrade their s/ware.

> >I don't see errors like this very often.
>
> When you do, are they spam?


Yes, they generally seem to be. I saw one other instance a few months ago where
legit mail was caught by this. They were using something called jmail:

    http://www.dimac.net/support/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=479&SearchTerms=Message-ID


The guys in the instance that caused me to comment were using MS outlook 2003 - the problem is fixed with SP2:

    http://www.smartertools.com/forums/p/10352/18717.aspx



There is nothing about this in the exim faq/wiki ... how do we get things added ?

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