[pmmail-list] PMMail doesn't generate Message-Id

[Brian Morrison]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:21:58 +0200, Gunnar Anzinger wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:53:05 -0300, PMMail OS/2 Support wrote:
>
>> You will not see message-ID lines. But when the messages come back
>> to you (if you send them to yourself) the line is there.
>
>But only if the mail server of your ISP generates Message-IDs. If I send a
>message to myself it will never get a Message-ID, because the mail server
>of my ISP does not generate them. I tried to convince my ISP to change
>this, but they tell me (depending on who you ask) either that this should
>be done by the mail client or that Message-IDs are not neccessary.

If they read RFC822 they will see that the first server in the chain
MUST add a MessageID if one is not already present. All mail must have
a globally unique ID.

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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
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