Re: No Message-ID
From: Thilo Barth (tab@gmx.net)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:30:10 +0100
hansjc@XS4ALL.NL (Hans Schotel) wrote:
>Of late I get regularly the following message:
>
>Article at offset xxxxxxxxx has no Message-ID. xxx articles deleted.
>
>In itself not such a problem, perhaps, but it makes havoc of my news.dat
>file; only solution: delete the .dat file, run mkhst.exe, and start the
>next day anew.
I think that happens when e-mail messages, which should, but need not
have a "Message-ID" header line, get filtered into a pseudo newsgroup;
somewhere (by filter or import.exe?) they then get added a
"X-Message-ID", however the expire program seems not to accept that as
a substitute.
>I seem to recall that some time ago someone had a similar problem, and a
>solution for the problem was given by somebody else. Alas, I do no longer
>have these messages. Anybody who knows a solution?
There used to be an archive of this list on the web at
"http://www.vex.net/yarn/list/".
Thilo