Re: <quoted-string>s in <msg-id>s (Re: Compatibility wit Netnews (was I-D ACTION:draft-resnick-2822upd-01.txt))

Philip Guenther writes:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> ...
>> One of formail, procmail and smartlist also generated message-ids 
>> containing quoted-string around that time. AFAICR the format was 
>> "word.word.word"@hostname.
>
> Yep.  That was formail and it stopped doing so in version 3.12, 
> released 1999-03-02

It's almost ten years ago, but perhaps you still remember why?

I'm assuming that the other three sources I've found (PP and unnamed 
gateways from XNS and X.400) stopped for similar reasons.

Arnt