From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 8 0:48: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B535437B416 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16uTsZ-0001Kv-00; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 08:47:55 +0100 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:47:55 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Change to "why does my mail to FreeBSD.org bounce" FAQ Message-ID: <20020408074755.GA4830@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , "Gary W. Swearingen" , doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020405155943.GA25988@submonkey.net> <20020407115530.GA79270@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:41:28AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Ceri Davies writes: > > > + Some mail user agents generate bad message IDs which will > > + not be accepted. You will need to persuade your mail user > > + agent to generate a valid message ID or else configure your > > + mail transfer agent to rewrite them. > > The answer should also have: > > In the FreeBSD.org mailing list system, the definition of "valid" > for the message ID and other mail headers is an arbitrary definition > which is different than those found in IETF RFCs and which is subject to > change without notice before or after the change. Well that's a matter of interpretation. I'd say that using @localhost in your message ID is simply making yourself far more likely to violate this piece of RFC2822 : The message identifier (msg-id) itself MUST be a globally unique identifier for a message. The generator of the message identifier MUST guarantee that the msg-id is unique. But then, as I said, that's just my interpretation. Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message