* Jim Breton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:59:52PM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > > I'm re-writing my Message-ID headers using qmail-queue,
> >
> > Why are you doing such things? You'll ruin the possibility to get
> > proper threading with message copies mutt may write to folders while
> > sending.
>
> Actually, you're right.
>
> But that's because my "implementation" is broken, and I should have
> realized that. However, if I were to write the Message-ID *before*
> creating the message (which is what I'm trying to do with my friend's
> configuration using my_hdr), this shouldn't be a problem.
>
> FYI, the reason I'm doing such things :) is because I don't particularly
> like the Message-IDs that Mutt writes.
RFC 822:
[...]
This identifier is intended to be machine readable and not necessarily
meaningful to humans.
[...]
That says it all ;)
>
> Call me silly, but the second half of the ID -- since it uses an
> incrementing letter (A.. B.. C.. and so on) makes it easy for someone to
> tell how many messages you have sent in between the first one he sees,
> and the next one (assuming you haven't started a new instance of Mutt in
> the meantime, but the pid is right there too so that can be determined).
>
>
> > > Anyone know why my_hdr doesn't work as I expected it to here?
> >
> > I suppose it's a bug. I'll look at it.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> > (But don't expect a fix for the stable branch.)
>
> I don't.
>
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