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Re: FCC to imap folders




Christian Lynbech <chl@tbit.dk> writes:
> I stand corrected. That is of course as real as one generated by the MTA.
> 
> Out of curiosity: is the generation of message id (on an outgoing
> mail) the responsability of the MUA or MTA? If gnus adds a message id
> field to a mail it is about to send, will the MTA (or behaved ones at
> least) respect that or generate a new one?

Well...if you think about it, it just stands to reason that an MTA
better respect whatever it's given for Message-Id... otherwise
relaying would not work very well... :-)

[An MTA *is* responsible for generating and adding an ID if it is not
present]

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