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>>>>> Scott Blachowicz writes:

 > Are there requirements on the message-id as far as legal characters &
 > such?  (e.g. maybe there should be precisely one @ character?) I've been
 > doing some filtering on message-id's in my mailagent rules:

 >     1) no @ between the <...>.
 >     5) no <
 >     6) no >

I get headers like the following from a X.400-SMTP gateway:

In-Reply-To: r9qbu4bo1rd.fsf(a)maryanne.cs.washington.edu
Message-ID: <BAU-VCVARU>

I have no idea how they could guarantee that that message id is
unique.

Sigh,

--Paul