PGP: sequencing messages

[Trevor Smith]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:38:09 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    I can't think of one off hand.  However, at the same time let me ask you
>this, is there one that says the /server/ must?

Brian Morrison has said that he, "Just looked at RFC822, it states
that the ID's uniqueness is guaranteed by the server that generates
it."

I didn't look up the RFC in question but the word "server" seems to
indicate that it isn't the client's job.

>    I know that servers will /add/ things that are missing if needed.  Some of
>the things it may add are a domain to make an email address complete (eg
>morpheus@rpglink.com versus morpheus), date (even though this is required by
>RFC822, the server will add it at the time it gets the message) and, IMHO,
>MSGID.  In short, it is standard and expected behavior that the agent that
>generates the message assigns the MSGID.  This has been the practice on pretty
>much everything that I can remember in email, news and even FTN.

Perhaps a better question then is how are these IDs derived by
*clients* so that they are guaranteed to be unique throughout the
Internet? Or is uniqueness not required, contrary to what Brian
indicates RFC822 says? (Note that I am not the developer so I'm still
not going to be able to change PMMail/2 once I understand this. I
just want to know.)


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