From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Message-ID generation
Date: 03 Mar 2001 11:45:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjbsrjku67.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87snkxqico.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (Florian Weimer's message of "01 Mar 2001 22:39:35 +0100")
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 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.
How is that relevant?
I do, anyway, since I use the message-id for sorting away duplicates.
Someone else mentioned threading, and mail-to-news gateways also rely
on the uniqueness of the mail message-id.
> Messages without IDs are even transported by most MTAs.
I believe sendmail adds one if it is missing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-03 10:45 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
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 [this message]
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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