Re: [PATCH] Generate Message-IDs from sender address
Matthias Andree wrote:
> 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...
In that case is it not wrong that "set hostname=blah" affects the
Message-IDs?
Cheers,
Gary