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Re: [PATCH] Generate Message-IDs from sender address



On 2006-09-26 14:53:18 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> I have several accounts that end up in one mailbox, and when
> replying to messages I usually set the "From:" address so I'm
> replying from whatever address the original message was sent to.
> While this changes the sender, I noticed that my Message-IDs
> always contain inauspicious.org regardless of the domain I'm
> sending from, so I wrote this little patch to make it take the
> domain part of the Message-ID from the sender address.  I don't
> know if this is useful for anyone else, but if it is then have
> it :)  It's based on 1.4.2.1 but it seems to work on the latest
> CVS too.

In general, this is incorrect as the domain part of the sender
address doesn't necessarily identifies the machine; this means
that duplicate Message-IDs could be generated. The best solution
is to take the FQDN of the machine, but isn't this what Mutt
currently does?

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