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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Message-ID generation
Date: 01 Mar 2001 22:39:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87snkxqico.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34rxepxta.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "28 Feb 2001 11:38:19 -0500")

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> > For mail, there never was a uniqueness constraint on message IDs.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean, but RFC822 4.6.1 says "The uniqueness of
> the message identifier is guaranteed by the host which generates it."

Hardly anybody relies on the uniqueness of message IDs.  Messages
without IDs are even transported by most MTAs.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-01 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-28 16:05 Toby Speight
2001-02-28 16:31 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-28 16:38   ` Paul Jarc
2001-03-01 21:39     ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-03-01 22:46       ` Paul Jarc
2001-03-02 10:34         ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-02 15:03           ` Paul Jarc
2001-03-03 10:45       ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-03-11 14:20         ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-11 15:09           ` Kai Großjohann
2001-03-11 15:10           ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-02-28 18:35   ` Toby Speight
2001-02-28 20:09   ` Kai Großjohann
2001-03-01  3:12     ` Russ Allbery
2001-03-01 14:24   ` Chris Shenton
2001-03-01 14:51     ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-01 22:52       ` Harry Putnam
2001-03-02 10:35         ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-01 15:17     ` Kai Großjohann
2001-03-01 22:05       ` David A. Cobb
2001-03-01 22:38         ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-03-01 22:55           ` David A. Cobb
2001-03-02  0:52             ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-03-02 14:35               ` Toby Speight
2001-03-02 15:41                 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-03-02 15:53                 ` Paul Jarc
2001-03-02 16:18                 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-03-02 16:43               ` David A. Cobb
2001-03-02 17:38                 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-03-03  3:44                   ` David A. Cobb
2001-12-31  2:37   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-02 23:24     ` Raymond Scholz

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