Subject: Message-Ids in Pine3.95 on Linux

From: [email-masked] (Nadeem Siddiqi)
Date: 20 Apr 1997 17:25:51 GMT

hi !

how can i configure pine to not display full machine name in the
message-id header ? 

i want it to give the message id as <123454asdetc@server>
instead of the default <[email-masked]>

i am running pine 3.95 on linux 2.0.27/slackware 3.1

thanx

nadeem

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:08:22 -0700

> instead of the default <[email-masked]>

You shouldn't do this.

The Message ID is not something that is supposed to be pretty; it is
something that is supposed to be unique.  If you use a non-unique name to
the right of the "@", then there is a small, but non-zero, chance that you
will duplicate a name generated by some other machine that happens to have
the same name.

Certain individuals have argued that the RFCs require that the Message-ID
be a fully-qualified domain name that is known to the Domain Name System
and matches the system which generated the message.  There isn't, in fact,
any such requirement (it requires jumping to a lot of conclusions to say
that there is), but it is undeniably the convention to do this.  In other
words, it's an option, but a "mandatory option"...  ;-)

-- Mark --

Unsolicited commercial email is NOT welcome at this email address.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 09:21:03 +0100 (BST)

> will duplicate a name generated by some other machine that happens to have

Agreed... but is it really necessary for the Message-Id generated by Pine
to be _quite_ so long?

We're seeing problems with Usenet News, where lengthy conversational
threads have hugely long "References:" lines building up very quickly.
This seems to cause severe problems for some of our other news software
(Tin, for one, doesn't like such long lines).

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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