[Gllug] Missing Message-ID header

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Tue 04 Nov, Richard Jones bloviated thus:

> Also, is this a desirable or undesirable thing to do?

According to my reading of the standard, you MUST NOT add such a
header if you are not the originating SMTP server.

RFC2821, section 6.3 Compensating for Irregularities:

[snip]
   -  Addition of a message-id field when none appears
   -  Addition of a date, time or time zone when none appears
   -  Correction of addresses to proper FQDN format

...These changes MUST NOT be applied by an SMTP server that
   provides an intermediate relay function.


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