On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 19:37, Michael Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: >> >> Bug or feature? > > Feature. Theo can talk more to this but I believe we wanted to standardize > on a generated id instead of using the header value since headers are easily > forged/duplicated even though the message wasn't the same.
yeah. we should probably have added a comment to this effect I guess ;) Also, Message-IDs are occasionally omitted; it's a SHOULD rather than a MUST in rfc 822. this is bad practice, but it happens. in that case we had to generate an ID anyway. --j.
