Message-ID: header is missing unless you have tracking options set

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In Outlook 2003, if I don't have any of the tracking options set, the outgoing SMTP messages do NOT contain a Message-ID: header. According to RFC (2)822, the
message needs to contain a Message-ID: header.

If you set ANY of the tracking options, OL generates the message-id.

It needs to do it for ALL generated SMTP messages.

Thanks,
LER
 
Larry Rosenman said:
In Outlook 2003, if I don't have any of the tracking options set, the outgoing SMTP messages do NOT contain a Message-ID: header. According to RFC (2)822, the
message needs to contain a Message-ID: header.

If you set ANY of the tracking options, OL generates the message-id.

It needs to do it for ALL generated SMTP messages.

Thanks,
LER
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Oh, and at least some servers will BOUNCE the message without a Message-ID: header. After I posted this, I re-read some of the threads here, and discovered that
this is *INTENTIONAL*.

It's not good.

You *NEED* to generate a Message-ID: in ALL cases, not just when the tracking options are set.
 
Actually the Message-ID is an optional reference field.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Larry Rosenman said:
In Outlook 2003, if I don't have any of the tracking options set, the
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outgoing SMTP messages do NOT contain a Message-ID: header. According to
RFC (2)822, the
 
I'd like to see your RFC reference. It's a REQUIRED field to the
best of my knowledge in SMTP transactions.

Not all MTA's add it on a TCP connection.
 
From 4.1:

optional-field =
/ "Message-ID" ":" msg-id
/ "Resent-Message-ID" ":" msg-id
/ "In-Reply-To" ":" *(phrase / msg-id)
/ "References" ":" *(phrase / msg-id)
/ "Keywords" ":" #phrase
/ "Subject" ":" *text
/ "Comments" ":" *text
/ "Encrypted" ":" 1#2word
/ extension-field ; To be defined
/ user-defined-field ; May be pre-empted


A.3. COMPLETE HEADERS

A.3.1. Minimum required

Date: 26 Aug 76 1429 EDT Date: 26 Aug 76 1429 EDT
From: (e-mail address removed) or From: (e-mail address removed)
Bcc: To:
(e-mail address removed)

Note that the "Bcc" field may be empty, while the "To" field
is required to have at least one address.

A.3.2. Using some of the additional fields

Date: 26 Aug 76 1430 EDT
From: George Jones<Group@Host>
Sender: Secy@SHOST
To: "Al Neuman"@Mad-Host,
Sam.Irving@Other-Host
Message-ID: some.string@SHOST

I think that makes it pretty clear that Message-ID is not among the minimum
fields required.
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Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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