Re: message-Id has localhost

[Michael Richardson]

Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> wrote:
    >> 127.0.0.1 localhost obiwan.sandelman.ca obiwan
    >>
    >> which is often required for certain things work, but I don't remember
    >> what now.  I'll change it see what breaks.  Is there any override?
    >> Let's see this message.

    > I see that worked.  There is not an override; if you use -messageid random
    > you'll get a random set of characters as the hostname.  I'm personally
    > reluctant to put yet another knob in nmh just for this.

I agree that no more knobs are needed.

Maybe strcmp(hostname,"localhost") should cause that value to be
ignored, and if necessary, resort to random messageid.  Or maybe that should
just be the default in some way.

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