[sylpheed:31716] Re: Why generate Message-ID

misc misc at mail333.com
Fri Sep 21 01:52:21 JST 2007


On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:37:18 +0000, Colin Leroy wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:15 -0400, misc wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> There is a setting for Sylpheed to generate Message-ID.
>> 
>> Is there any advantage to generating message-id by Sylpheed as
>> opposed to having it generated automatically by mail-server? 
> 
> The main advantage is that on IMAP servers without UIDPLUS, it's the
> best way to find back a newly uploaded mail. 

I'm using only POP, not IMAP. Is there any (other) reason for me to use
this setting?

> In fact, it's important enough that we dropped this preference in Claws
> Mail.

So it always will generate its own Message-ID always? I would rather have
control over this setting.

Are you one of the Claws developers?



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