stopspam.org says this: Message-Id: (also Message-id: or Message-ID:) The Message-Id is a more-or- less unique identifier assigned to each message, usually by the first mailserver it encounters. Conventionally, it is of the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", where the "gibberish" part could be absolutely anything and the second part is the name of the machine that assigned the ID. Sometimes, but not often, the "gibberish" includes the sender's username. Any email in which the message ID is malformed (e.g., an empty string or no @ sign), or in which the site in the message ID isn't the real site of origin, is probably a forgery.
6/27/2002 3:32:48 PM, "alan parman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks all for your responses. > >After much playing around it turns out that the Message-ID field was missing, and >this was causing the spam trigger. > >After looking at several other emails, there seems to be no clear pattern to the >Message-ID field, at least the first half. For example: > >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >this is year-date-time and a user-name > >Message-ID: <002001c21e17$e702d9c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >but what is this? > >Are there any rules to what goes into a Message-ID? >-- >__________________________________________________________ >Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com >http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > >Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. >http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8 > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the >subject, without the quotes. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
