Exchange and duplicate message-id with quarantine.

[Julian Field]

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What are your "Spam Actions". If you use "notify" then the message-id is
generated by the MTA, and should therefore always be unique.

Stef Morrell wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>I can see from the list that this was discussed in October of 2003
>("Exchange blocking duplicate messages"), but it doesn't look like a
>solution was reached.
>
>To restate the problem:
>
>When an email is quarantined, the notification is sent to the EU with
>the same message-id as the original email.
>When that email is de-quarantined (from a raw queue file), it still
>retains this message-id.
>Exchange accepts, but does not deliver emails with duplicate message-id.
>If you wait long enough (and it is unclear how long), before releasing
>the quarantined email, then exchange will process it normally, perhaps
>it keeps a limited history of "used" message-ids.
>
>Has anyone found a method or workaround which allows a message to be
>released immediately from quarantine to an exchange server?
>
>And yes, I know we all hate exchange, however the "real world" uses it
>more than we would care to confess. :)
>
>
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