Message IDs (was Re: PGP: sequencing messages)

Steve Lamb pmmail@rpglink.com
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:26:42 -0700


Monday, April 10, 2000, 7:22:44 AM, Trevor wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:16:28 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>>Consider a message that I send (but not in-reply-to anything),
>>how are incoming messages going to get threaded off it (if
>>PMMail doesn't invent/know the original message id, the 
>>in-reply-to's from the incoming messages can't be matched)?

> I did think of this but since I'm playing the devil's advocate, I
> didn't want to do your job for you. :-)

    Well, if it is from a mailing list the copy the person gets back will have
the MSGID in it from the server since it has passed through at least one.  ;)



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