lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm | 3 +--
 lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm | 1 -
 lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
index 232a91c097f16c78ebc7fdb66e7a5bf03493887e..25fec10a0ea3095f5b81bce84cd220f3deddfa26 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
@@ -266,8 +266,7 @@ 	my $url = $feed_opts->{url};
 	my $midurl = $feed_opts->{midurl};
 
 	my $header_obj = $mime->header_obj;
-	my $mid = $header_obj->header_raw('Message-ID');
-	defined $mid or return;
+	my $mid = mid_clean($header_obj->header_raw('Message-ID'));
 	$mid = PublicInbox::Hval->new_msgid($mid);
 	my $href = $midurl . $mid->{href}. '/';
 
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
index 72496065d59fc49dba282428fee6885b1438dc2d..77acecda0dc39aa7ca3bedf675b6ce32078009f8 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ }
 
 sub new_msgid {
 	my ($class, $msgid) = @_;
-	$msgid = mid_clean($msgid);
 	$class->new($msgid, mid_escape($msgid));
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 34f97c7696ebbd0110ed6be75aa2210c0e63f615..6f79f601d777d2c9e9f895acc48b6c365f47d904 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ 	if ($srch) {
 		$ctx->{-upfx} = '../';
 	}
 	my @title;
-	my $mid = $hdr->header_raw('Message-ID');
+	my $mid = mid_clean($hdr->header_raw('Message-ID'));
 	$mid = PublicInbox::Hval->new_msgid($mid);
 	foreach my $h (qw(From To Cc Subject Date)) {
 		my $v = $hdr->header($h);