Message-Ids

Message-Ids

[Scott Hofmann]

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

Message-Id: <something>@foo

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

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

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

scott

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Re: Message-Ids

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "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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Re: Message-Ids

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Scott Hofmann <scotth@visix.com> writes:

> IRIX 5.2 box, and now I'm getting bogus Message-Id headers:
> 
> Message-Id: <something>@foo

I thought only Sun boxes had this problem. 

Anyways, set `mail-host-address' to be the fully qualified domain name
of your machine, and things should work better.

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