On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:10, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > -- Stephen Grier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on > Freitag, 27. Juni 2003 13:47 Uhr +0100 regarding non-existent msgids & > duplicate delivery suppression: > > > I have noticed that this has been happening on other occasions, where > > lmtpd does a duplicate_check and then a duplicate_mark on zero length > > message-ids. This raises the possibility that the server is suppressing > > messages that are not duplicates, but merely have no message-id header. > > That in itself is very weird. Every MTA along the way should add a > message-id if there isn't one. Or are you saying there *is* a message-id, > but it's empty? That would be horribly broken, but might explain why one > isn't added by the MTAs ...
Yes, the messages do have a Message-Id: header with an empty value. I've identified 2 domains which appear to be doing this. Would it be reasonable to have lmtpd not add an entry to the deliver db for zero-length message-ids? -- Stephen Grier Systems Developer Computing Services Queen Mary, University of London