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



Gary Benson <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Wrong. Some random mutt user doesn't usually own the sender address's
domain so they cannot just take that as the domain part of the
MID. There are enough broken mailers on incompletely configured machines
that mess up the MID, let's not join mutt to *that* dubious club...

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Matthias Andree