diff --git a/lib/Compose.php b/lib/Compose.php
index 9572d33a7..bafa85307 100644
--- a/lib/Compose.php
+++ b/lib/Compose.php
@@ -2630,20 +2630,30 @@ public function sendRedirectMessage($to, $log = true)
                 if ($log && ($tmp = $headers['Message-ID'])) {
                     $msg_id = reset($tmp->getIdentificationOb()->ids);
 
-                    /* Store history information. */
-                    $injector->getInstance('IMP_Maillog')->log(
-                        new IMP_Maillog_Message($msg_id),
-                        new IMP_Maillog_Log_Redirect([
-                            'msgid' => reset($resent_headers->getIdentificationOb()->ids),
-                            'recipients' => $recipients,
-                        ])
-                    );
+                    /* Some inbound messages ship a Message-ID header
+                     * whose value cannot be parsed into an id (missing
+                     * angle brackets, empty header, mailer-daemon
+                     * bounces, malformed Notes/SharePoint output).
+                     * reset() on the resulting empty ids array returns
+                     * false; skip the maillog + sentmail write rather
+                     * than construct log entries that will fault
+                     * downstream. See imp#96. */
+                    if ($msg_id) {
+                        /* Store history information. */
+                        $injector->get('IMP_Maillog')->log(
+                            new IMP_Maillog_Message($msg_id),
+                            new IMP_Maillog_Log_Redirect([
+                                'msgid' => reset($resent_headers->getIdentificationOb()->ids),
+                                'recipients' => $recipients,
+                            ])
+                        );
 
-                    $injector->getInstance('IMP_Sentmail')->log(
-                        IMP_Sentmail::REDIRECT,
-                        $msg_id,
-                        $recipients
-                    );
+                        $injector->get('IMP_Sentmail')->log(
+                            IMP_Sentmail::REDIRECT,
+                            $msg_id,
+                            $recipients
+                        );
+                    }
                 }
 
                 $tmp = new stdClass();
diff --git a/lib/Maillog/Message.php b/lib/Maillog/Message.php
index 54782fd1c..63f172457 100644
--- a/lib/Maillog/Message.php
+++ b/lib/Maillog/Message.php
@@ -51,15 +51,28 @@ public function __construct($data)
     }
 
     /**
+     * Populate the message payload.
      *
+     * Accepts either an {@see IMP_Indices} (msgid resolved lazily on
+     * first read via IMAP fetch) or an already-known Message-ID
+     * string. Empty/false input is discarded so a getter that finds
+     * neither payload can return an empty string cleanly rather than
+     * fault on a null indices reference. See imp#96 —
+     * Compose::sendRedirectMessage constructs one of these from a
+     * `reset()` on a possibly-empty ids array, which yields `false`.
      */
     public function add($data)
     {
         if ($data instanceof IMP_Indices) {
             $this->_indices = $data;
-        } else {
-            $this->_msgid = strval($data);
+        } elseif (($stringified = strval($data)) !== '') {
+            $this->_msgid = $stringified;
         }
+        /* else: caller handed us an empty/false value. Neither
+         * $_indices nor $_msgid is set; the msgid getter returns ''
+         * and downstream Storage/History::_getUniqueHistoryId's
+         * empty-string guard turns it into a clean
+         * RuntimeException. */
     }
 
     /**
@@ -79,7 +92,23 @@ public function __get($name)
 
             case 'msgid':
                 if (!$this->_msgid) {
-                    [$mbox, $uid] = $this->indices->getSingle();
+                    /* Constructed without an IMP_Indices AND without a
+                     * usable Message-ID. Callers that build a message
+                     * with a false/empty/malformed id (see imp#96 —
+                     * Compose::sendRedirectMessage on a message whose
+                     * Message-ID header had no parseable id) would
+                     * otherwise fault here with "Call to a member
+                     * function getSingle() on null". Return an empty
+                     * string; downstream storage layers (notably
+                     * IMP_Maillog_Storage_History::_getUniqueHistoryId)
+                     * already throw a clean RuntimeException on
+                     * empty msgids, which is the intended failure
+                     * mode. */
+                    if ($this->_indices === null) {
+                        return '';
+                    }
+
+                    [$mbox, $uid] = $this->_indices->getSingle();
 
                     $query = new Horde_Imap_Client_Fetch_Query();
                     $query->envelope();