[pmmail-list] Missing Message-ID

[Norbert Schmidt]

Hello Lüko,

>   But for my mailboxes at T-Online or GMX, it is them who are setting 
>the rules, and I would have to implement them in my PMMail, after 
>asking. 

any specific reason why?

I'm using my own mailer and never got a rejection because of the
message id. Just for receipients on t-online I use the smtp server for
my t-dsl as a relay. Still no problem  with my ids.

>   But using the own email address, which has to be unique, as a basis 
>for numbering, should be OK in most cases. But a sphere of insecurity is 
>left, 

So what. The only way a conflict could happen would be if someone else
had a similar email name (like "peter@xxx.yy" and "hans-peter@xxx.yy")
and the algorithm used by  "peter" just happens to produce the same
unique local id with an additional "hans-" appended. Not very likely.
;-)

What is the worst that could happen in this unlikely case? One mail
might be rejected because of duplicate ids. Or a mail program that
supports navigation by message threading (which I sincerely hope PMMail
will in the future ...) might get slightly confused, if both messages
have the same receipient.


>because of the deficiencies of the Internet architecture itself, 
>in my view. 

Nobody is perfect. ;-)


Regards,
Norbert 
(My name is Nobody. ;-))
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