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From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>
Subject: Re: UIDL
Date: 18 Mar 1999 09:50:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vgv7lse97i4.fsf@ms.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "18 Mar 1999 07:33:29 -0500"

François Pinard writes:

> Hi, people.  I often noticed things like:

>    X-UIDL: 3f52d1362f2c1d57ae074fac92f7c9a0

> Would someone be kind enough to explain what it is, and why it is there?

I have only ever seen it on spam.  I think that it is an artifact of a 
particular brand of spam-mailer software.

I find it very handy, since one of my first split rules is this:

        ("x-uidl" ".+" junk)

Do you ever get that header from a real mail message?

-- 
Colin


  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-18 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-18 12:33 UIDL François Pinard
1999-03-18 14:50 ` Colin Rafferty [this message]
1999-03-18 16:30   ` UIDL Florian Weimer
1999-03-18 19:35     ` UIDL Zlatko Calusic
1999-03-20 20:44   ` UIDL Hallvard B Furuseth
1999-03-18 15:33 ` UIDL Edward J. Sabol

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