Re: a Message-ID proposal
On 21:06 21 Jun 2004, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
| In filtering e-mail it can be quite useful to recognise one's own
| Message-IDs. For example, you can filter out the failure report for a
| message you actually sent from the hundreds of bounce messages caused
| by a spammer using your address as the envelope sender; or you can
| automatically whitelist people who put one of your Message-IDs in the
| In-Reply-To field.
Neat idea!
| Recognising the format of a Mutt Message-ID is good enough in most
| cases,
But, I think, the wrong approach.
Instead, why not just log the message-ids of your outgoing messages and
use that table. Then you don't need special knowledge of a standard that
might change or be ill-documented etc.
Cheers,
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