Re: OT? Hard Bouncing from Yahoo Groups

["Stephen Jones" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David

You have listed my name below - or do you mean the other steve jones?

I'm using Outlook 2003 and have had no problems with receiving individual
group emails for many months now.

What is it that assigns the message id? Outlook or the mail server (in my
case this is UTV), or both?

SJ


[From: David Buckley [mailto:db@xxxxxxx]]
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There have been six messages without message-IDs during this month.

You should grumble at your ISP, as RFC2822 (the latest incarnation
of RFC822, the definition of email message formats) says:

3.6.4. Identification fields

Though optional, every message SHOULD have a "Message-ID:" field.
Furthermore, reply messages SHOULD have "In-Reply-To:" and
"References:" fields as appropriate, as described below.

SHOULD is different to MUST.  Its not quite optional, but it is
acceptable for Message-ID not to be there.

Thus as these fields are not mandatory, they should not prevent
delivery of the mail.  Returning a 550 code is correct however, as
they are refusing to deliver for "policy reasons".

The folks who have sent messages this month without Message-IDs are:

Alex Clark
Stephen Jones
Jon Whiten
Alex Monaghan
Jonathan @ Home

What mail clients are you guys using?