--On 24 February 2009 12:22:13 +0000 Alain Williams <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just had someone 'phone me up complaining that mail to me was bouncing,
> ... long story short here is the message in the error log.
>
>       2009-02-24 11:49:52 1LbvnM-0002Zg-Su H=lon-gs3dmrelay.mistral.net
> [217.154.246.188] F=<[email protected]> rejected after DATA: RFC2822 says
> that all mail SHOULD have a Message-ID header.
>
> This is caused by a trap in acl_check_data (acl_smtp_data) of:
>   deny    condition  = ${if !def:h_Message-ID: {1}}
>           message    = RFC2822 says that all mail SHOULD have a
> Message-ID header.\n\                        Most messages without it are
> spam, so your mail has been rejected.
>
> Just a request for comments, should I be doing this sort of thing ?

As long as you're encouraging authors of mail clients to fix their 
software, why not?

> I don't see errors like this very often.

When you do, are they spam?

>
> --
> Alain Williams
> Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer,
> IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/
> Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information:
> http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Past chairman of UKUUG:
> http://www.ukuug.org/
># include <std_disclaimer.h>



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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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