[pmmail-list] PMMail doesn't generate Message-Id

[Rod... Whitworth]

See "Internet Email Protocols, A Developers Guide" by Kevin Johnson,
ISBN 0-201-432886-9 for a suggested way to generate unique IDs.
It looks like:

<YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.PID.SEQ@mybox.example.com>

I doubt you'd get duplicates using that.


On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:25:09 -0300, PMMail OS/2 Support wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:38:46 +0200, Martin Jansen wrote:
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>>In _every_ programming language there are methods to generate nearly
>>unique IDs. The probability that there will the same ID once again
>>is lower than the probability that I win the lottery twice in a row. 
>>And thus, it is negligible. So I don't see a real problem there.
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>Sorry for starting this. I originally was only pointing out that it
>was theoretically possible for IDs to be repeated. The original
>person I was replying to said that they were required to be unique
>but, in reality, that can't be guaranteed. Very likely, yes, but not
>guaranteed.
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>It was a conversational point only, not any sort of philosophical
>point.
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>Trevor Smith
>PMMail/2 Technical Support
>pmmailos2@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
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