non-existent msgids & duplicate delivery suppression

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Stephen Grier wrote:
> 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?

It would be reasonable for lmtpd to reject delivering such crap with a 5xx
error.  Empty message-id are NOT acceptable anywhere in the email
transmission chain.

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