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Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:

> With all this talk on how to generate message-ID values and ensure
> their uniqueness, it's long been my opinion that the Right Way to do
> this is to have a well-known MessageId service.  Connect to the
> assigned port on any server (perhaps even localhost), tell it how
> many ids you want, read them in, and go away until you've used them
> all.

There's already such a service built into recent versions of INN:

| 200 cert.uni-stuttgart.de InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.0 ready (posting ok).
| post
| 340 Ok, recommended ID <97j88b$o6$1@hornet.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>

For mail, there never was a uniqueness constraint on message IDs.