Subject: Pine Message-Id: subcomponent values query

From: [email-masked] (Michael J. Corrigan)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 13:14:58 -0800

Three questions about the Message-Id: field that Pine generates:

Pine.3.05.YYMMDDHHMM.Xpid-number@host
                ^^^^      ^^^^^^ ^^^^

Is HHMM is "supposed to be" GMT or localtime ?
Should host be a fqdn ?
Where does the value in 'number' come from ?

Any information on these questions would be appreciated.
Thanks
-Mike Corrigan

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From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 11:21:09 -0500 (EST)

The HHMM is suposed to be the local time with the current code. The
hostname should be a FQDN. Often it isn't because the first entry in
/etc/hosts (or DNS, NIS or YP)  is the non-FQDN. For example, it is:
   134.34.23.45     weber  weber.ucsd.edu
instead of
   134.34.23.45     weber.ucsd.edu weber

Changing the will have some implications for your machine set up, but
there's not a good alternative way to get the hostname and it seems better
to run systems with the FQDN name first in the list.

LL