Alain Williams 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 ?
>
> I don't see errors like this very often.
>
>
I have seen crapy MUAs (possibly Webmail interfaces) that do not
generate a Message-ID.
Since this prevents proper threading (no way for a reply to include a
References or In-Reply-To header), even if it's not spam, you're not
missing a lot by dropping them. :-)
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