On 2006-06-30 13:46:27 -0400, Michael C. Toren wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:58:45AM -0700, Elliot Foster wrote: > > Isn't this only an issue with mail submission, rather than receiving > > mail? > > Perhaps not. sendmail will add these headers if they are missing in a mail > submission, but qmail on the other hand will not.
So perhaps qmail isn't an MSA? (half kidding)
A Mail Submission Agent is supposed to fix incoming messages - e.g. by
adding missing Date and Message-Id headers, canonicalizing mail
addresses, etc. An MTA on the other hand is supposed to pass on the
message unaltered (except that it prepends a Received header).
hp
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