>I also find it hard to beleive that someone wants the MUA to have a >specific Message-ID for their email, but there is at least one software >that I'm aware of that does act upon the contents of it: > >http://smarden.org/qconfirm/qconfirm-check-mid.1.html
I mean, yes, it looks for messages based on Message-IDs in the References header; I think it would work fine with 'random'. >> My personal feeling is that the people who (a) care about generating a >> local Message-ID, and (b) actually care WHAT appears right of the '@' >> either need to configure their system appropriately or write code to >> change nmh behavior. > >I think that's reasonable. I don't see anything necessarily wrong with >nmh being able to generate a Message-ID so I'm sure patches would be >considered if someone offered. Just so I'm clear, I'm fine with people submitting patches to change the current behavior. --Ken