On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:40:34AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to extract the message ID from an email that I am about >> the send, but before I send it. I wonder if this is impossible. From >> what I read [1], the message-id is assigned either by the MUA (which I >> understand to be mutt) or the first MSA. Which one is it? >> > > You can generate your own valid message-id, and all subsequent > systems should preserve it. Does that solve your problem? > > Just make sure you follow the format and that it is unique.
Yes that would solve my problem, if I could do that from the compose menu. I would prefer to trust mutt to do that correctly rather than myself. But if that is the best option then I would like to look into it. Thank you, Dan. Xu
