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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