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

Lueko Willms pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 06:37:23 +0200 (MES)


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

   T-Online (you dialed into IP via T-Online) does, but maybe
pair.com doesn't. 

>                             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.

  Message-ID is not required according to RFC822, that is right, but
I very much think that they are necessary. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms@T-Online.de