Re: [PATCH v6 1/1] send-email: retrieve Message-ID from outlook SMTP server

> The script generates a Message-ID alongwith the other headers when
> gen_header is called, and is sent alongwith the email. For most email
> providers, including gmail, the Message-ID goes unchanged to the
> recipient.
> 
> But, this does not seem to be a case with Outlook. In Outlook, when we
> send our own Message-ID as a part of the headers, it discards it. Then
> it generates a new random Message-ID and that is what the recipient
> gets.
> 
> This is a problem because the Message-ID is crucial when we are sending
> multiple emails in a thread. The current implementation for threads in
> the script replies to the Message-ID it generated, but due to Outlook's
> behavior, it is not the same as the one that the recipient got, thus
> breaking threads. So a need arises to retrieve the Message-ID from the
> server response and set it in the In-Reply-To and References email
> headers instead of using the self generated one for the purpose of
> replies.
> 
> The $smtp->message variable in this script for outlook is something like
> this:
> 
> 2.0.0 OK <Message-ID> [Hostname=Some-hostname]
> 
> The Message-ID here is the one the recipient gets, rather than the one
> the script generated.
> 
> This patch uses the fact above and retrieves the Message-ID from the
> server response. It then changes the value of the $message_id variable
> to the one received from the server. This value will be used when next
> and subsequent messages are sent as replies to the message, thus
> preserving the threading of the messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
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