> Does anyone on the list know of an RFC or, better yet, an "official"
> algorithm to use for the creation of a message's Message-ID: header value?
> I'm gating web forums to Mailman lists and need to generate Message-IDs for
> messages created via the web interface. I need to insert the ID in a forum
> DB field and deposit it into the outgoing message.
Hi Kevin,
Take a look at RFC 822 -- it describes the Message-ID: header.
If I remember correctly, it's in the form of
<atom>@<atom>
and should be unique.
Most sites choose to do
<unique identifier>@example.com
(replacing example.com with their domain name). The unique identifier
is usually generated based on the current time and process id, i.e.
time() . $$
in perl. It can be left as base 10, converted to base 16, run through
md5sum to create a 32-bit number, etc...
Chris
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