Re: [Evolution] Evolution generating invalid message-ids

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 16:46, Jörg Roßdeutscher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Evolution is generating incorrect Message-IDs. Not only for me, but for
> many people on a german Suse-Linux-mailinglist. So maybe it's a
> suse-related problem (We all use suse) or it's related to
> internationalization (We all are german)

the devel versions of Evolution use gethostbyname() to resolve the
results from gethostname() so that you get an FQDN.

[snip]
> Oh, and the hostname in the message above says "dirk", which is a widely
> used name here in germany. Well, not only here, but it _might_ mean it's
> a problem of german versions.

keep in mind that message-ids are not guarenteed to be unique no matter
what you do. rfc2822 even comments on this.

> BTW: 
> The trouble is not only, that evolution is generating an incorrect id.  
>
> It should not generate _any_ MessageID.

you would be wrong.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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