On January 17, 2002 at 22:39, J C Lawrence wrote: > > I might also throw in that the M-ID is intended to be unique per > > message, but that in some cases (non-compliant, broken mailers or > > list-software) it might not turn out to be, so MHonArc should > > provide a means of detecting if a M-ID is already used as an > > identifier (filename) and then select a replacement one (add a > > suffix?). > > Given that MHonArc currently generates locally unique Message-IDs > for messages without them < i doubt this is a problem.
Only for messages that do not have message-ids. This way, the auto-generation overhead is only done for, hopefully, a minority of messages. If Digest::MD5 is being used (which is the case if installed), there is still a risk of two different messages being considered the same since the md5 is only computed for the message header. --ewh
