Message contains invalid header

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Thu Oct 26 17:14:18 EDT 2006


On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Marten Lehmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> If it's mails from the broken Lotus Notes client that's the problem (and 
>> they're the only ones we saw here), it's caused by a null Message-ID 
>> header; just have your SMTP server remove those.
>
> no, it is not just at mails from Notes clients. I also get this error on 
> messages with correct Message-ID. We cannot simply refuse mails because some 
> clients don't implement the standards 100% correctly. Our users still need 
> the mails and every mailclient can handle it even with errors.
>
> And even Cyrus does handle it if I'm putting such a message in the mailbox 
> and do a reconstruct!
>
> So why is it refused at lmtp time? How can I disable this? It is really 
> important for me!

Find the code in the source of Cyrus and modify it.  There is no runtime 
option to disable this.

 	Andy


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