From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36473 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Suppressing message-id generation locally Date: 27 May 2001 17:32:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172051 8788 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:47:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:47:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19515 invoked by alias); 27 May 2001 21:32:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19510 invoked from network); 27 May 2001 21:32:59 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 May 2001 21:32:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 30988 invoked by uid 500); 27 May 2001 21:33:19 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "26 May 2001 05:55:12 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36473 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36473 Harry Putnam writes: > So how to proceed, if one wanted to disable message-id at the local > MTA level so that my local MTA (sendmail-8.11.2-14) passes the message > to outgoing mail machine at ISP (where I have no say in config) with > out a message-id, so that regardless of MUA the message id would get > generated at the outgoing smtp machine. I don't know how to do this with sendmail, but am I correct that your sendmail will hand the message to your ISP via SMTP? I don't think an SMTP receiver normally generates Message-ID when it's missing, so this may require special cooperation from your ISP. Try telneting directly to the SMTP server and sending yourself a test message without a Message-ID to see if this will work at all. > My firewall, a NETGEAR FR314 DSL/router holds my static IP address but > does not process mail, beyond passing it through. As long as that machine never generates Message-IDs, and only one of your internal machines does, there would be no problem in using the router's hostname in your Message-IDs. That would probably be the easiest way, assuming you can tell sendmail to use that hostname for Message-IDs. paul