Re: [exim] Exim not always logging Message-ID

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Author: Jasen Betts
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim not always logging Message-ID
On 2016-06-01, Mike Brudenell <mike.brudenell@???> wrote:
> Hi, Jeremy -
>
> We used to compile Exim from source, but current policy here now is to use
> the version from the Ubuntu distribution: the LTS version, sadly, so I
> don't get fixes for up to 2 years. (So it might be something I need to
> discuss again with our Head of Group. :-)
>
> I've just posted a follow-up message (which you've probably read by now)
> with my analysis of why I think it's not getting logged. The TL;DR version
> is:
>
>    1. Missing Message-ID value gets generated and header added to message
>    structure
>    2. …but isn't recorded in the msgid_header variable
>    3. …so the logging code later sees msgid_header is still NULL so doesn't
>    log anything for the message-id.



the generated message_ids are easily computed:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-message_processing.html#SECID226

${message_exim_id} holds the variable part.

perhaps set a variable in he data ACL

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