Subject: Re: Working with public-inbox.org [Was: [PATCH] rev-parse: respect core.hooksPath in --git-path]

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:41:51 -0800

Arif Khokar <[email-masked]> writes:

> One concern I have regarding this idea is whether or not SMTP servers
> typically replace a Message-Id header set by the client.

The clients are supposed to give Message-IDs, but because some
clients fail to do so, SMTP server implementations are allowed to
add an ID to avoid leaving a message nameless (IIRC, 6.3 in
RFC2821).  So "replace" would be in violation.

But some parts of the world ignore RFCs, so...