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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Subject: Re: Message-Ids
Date: 01 May 1996 12:53:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2n33s6uhd.fsf@deanna.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Scott Hofmann's message of 01 May 1996 10:07:33 -0700

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Hofmann <scotth@visix.com> writes:

Scott> How is the Message-Id header built? I've just moved my
Scott> newsreading from using XEmacs 19.13/sgnus 0.80 on an HP-UX
Scott> 10.01 box to XEmacs 19.13/sgnus 0.80 on an IRIX 5.2 box, and
Scott> now I'm getting bogus Message-Id headers:

Scott> Message-Id: <something>@foo

Scott> The problem is the lack of a domain - on the HP it looked like this:

Scott> Message-Id: <something>@bar.visix.com

Both of these Message-ID:'s are bogus.  A proper one looks like:
Message-ID: <m2oho86vck.fsf@deanna.miranova.com>

The angle brackets should always be on the outside.

Scott> Where does sgnus get the Message-Id from? The info files didn't
Scott> say. Thanks,

Message IDs *must* be unique across every mail & netnews message ever
sent in the past, or ever will be sent in the future.

The algorithm used by September Gnus is contained in the functions
message-make-message-id and message-unique-id in message.el.

The part after the @ is generated by the function message-make-fqdm,
which calls the XEmacs builtin function (system-name).  This routine
has serious problems (IMHO) in 19.13 (it is not a problem with any
version of Emacs I've tried).  I was able to get satisfactory results
only after using a FQDN for the system hostname
(eg. ``deanna.miranova.com'' versus ``deanna'').

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  reply	other threads:[~1996-05-01 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-05-01 17:07 Message-Ids Scott Hofmann
1996-05-01 19:53 ` Steven L Baur [this message]
1996-05-02 14:20 ` Message-Ids Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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