Re: message.el: mail-host-address ignored

[Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>]

Raymond> Raymond Scholz <URL:mailto:rscholz@tzi.de>

0> In article <m3hfisu5jf.fsf@rscholz.dyndns.org>, Raymond wrote:

Raymond> Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>> What would be even better is if someone defined a "Message-ID by
>> UDP or TCP" service one could connect to for unique IDs.

Raymond> I use `mail-host-address' for kinda such thing.  If I dial
Raymond> up at my ISP, I get a dynamic IP address.  After that I
Raymond> use a tools from DynDNS (http://www.dyndns.org) to point
Raymond> rscholz.dyndns.org on my dynamic address. So the message
Raymond> IDs are RFC-conform (or whatever).

I don't think we're talking about the same thing.  In my Ideal
Universe(TM), I'd connect to the message-id port of some host
(perhaps localhost), and it would reply with a valid message-id.
A bit like how the chargen service works.  Then Gnus and all the
other systems out there using message-ids wouldn't have to each
implement their own generators, and there'd be less chance of
collisions.  But I think that now is too late to put the genie
back into the bottle.