From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14548 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hallvard B Furuseth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Unique? Message-Id generation by Gnus Date: 13 Mar 1998 22:47:52 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153720 16753 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03521 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:56:42 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA23451 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:51:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAN09673; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:25:19 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:48:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA13807 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:48:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6320 invoked by uid 504); 13 Mar 1998 21:48:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6317 invoked from network); 13 Mar 1998 21:48:08 -0000 Original-Received: from pat.uio.no (6089@129.240.130.16) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 1998 21:48:07 -0000 Original-Received: from bombur2.uio.no (actually bombur2.uio.no [129.240.200.72]) by pat.uio.no with SMTP (PP); Fri, 13 Mar 1998 22:47:54 +0100 Original-Received: by bombur2.uio.no ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 22:47:53 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Matt Armstrong's message of "13 Mar 1998 11:14:40 -0800" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14548 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14548 Matt Armstrong writes: > a worry of mine over message-unique-id's use of user-mail-address to > get the domain name of the machine. It does that only as a backup. > The Message-Id should be generated from what is in the Sender: field, It is, indirectly. The sender field is generated from (system-name). See (message-make-sender) in message.el. (message-make-fqdn), which generates the domain part of the message ID, tries: first (system-name) if that has at least 2 components, then mail-host-address if that has at least 2 components, then user-mail-address' domain. > not the user-mail-address. My UID isn't guaranteed to be unique under > the bigfoot.com domain. Note that your message's ID is . It does not fall through to using mail-user-address. -- Hallvard