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

[Maynard]

Adding to the following, Message-ID creation seems to be relegated to
MTAs, and PMMail is MUA, not MTA; though I can see where some
implementations of PMMail might like to issue a Message-ID, and
therefore it could be a potentially useful and not non-compliant
feature, I don't see where PMMail is currently non-compliant.

	`~Maynard


On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:03:11 +1000 (EST), Rod... Whitworth wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:32:36 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
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>>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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>RFC822 is obsolete replaced by RFC2822.
>IAC 822 lists Message-ID as optional (sec 4.1 on p17) 
>RFC2822 says the field SHOULD be present so it is not mandatory (3.6.4)
>and as a result it cannot require any particular agent to instantiate
>it.
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>The Johnson book says that it should be inserted by the first MTA if
>not done by the MUA which makes sense but you can not enforce it.
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>In the beginning was The Word
>and The Word was Content-type: text/plain
>The Word of Rod.
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