Re: message-Id has localhost

[Ken Hornstein]

>I also  find it hard  to beleive  that someone wants  the MUA to  have a
>specific Message-ID for their email, but  there is at least one software
>that I'm aware of that does act upon the contents of it:
>
>http://smarden.org/qconfirm/qconfirm-check-mid.1.html

I mean, yes, it looks for messages based on Message-IDs in the References
header; I think it would work fine with 'random'.

>> My personal feeling is that the people who (a) care about generating a
>> local Message-ID, and (b) actually care  WHAT appears right of the '@'
>> either need to  configure their system appropriately or  write code to
>> change nmh behavior.
>
>I think that's  reasonable. I don't see anything  necessarily wrong with
>nmh being  able to generate  a Message-ID so  I'm sure patches  would be
>considered if someone offered.

Just so I'm clear, I'm fine with people submitting patches to change
the current behavior.

--Ken