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
Philip Guenther