On 7/31/09 2:29 AM, "Adam Funk" <a24061@???> wrote:
> On 2009-07-30, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
>
>> Adam Funk <a24061@???> (Do 30 Jul 2009 16:49:08 CEST):
>> ...
>>> curious about the second: can a message really get to the delivery
>>> point without a Message-ID header?
>>
>> If I remember well, only in submission-mode exim should do some
>> fixups (Message-ID, Date, Sender, ...).
>
> Yes, I remember setting that option a few years ago on my outgoing
> exim. ISTR (but I could be wrong) that I needed to do it because
> messages were getting rejected by subsequent mail servers for not
> having MIDs.
>
[Catching up]
Unfortunately, having a Message-Id: header is still a SHOULD, even in RFC
5322. So one really ought not to reject based (only) on their lack. It would
be very nice if I could. (And if running a server only for myself, I likely
would, with provision for an exception list.)
--John
