On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 01:10:47PM +0300, Consus wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:59:01PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 02:24:22PM -0400, Remco Rijnders wrote: > > > The Message-ID that mutt generates is supposed to be unique. Up till now > > > mutt would generate this ID based on the current date and time, followed > > > by > > > ".G". followed by a letter A to Z (A for the 1st and 27th email sent, Z > > > for > > > the 26th, etc.), followed by the pid of the active mutt process, followed > > > by "@" and the configured hostname. > > > > This is utterly pointless. This may come off as harsh but please > > understand that's not intended. I just want to be completely clear > > hee so there is no misunderstanding or equivocation. > > > > None of the information you just listed is sensitive, and almost all > > of it is already REQUIRED to be present in the message: > > > > - The "hostname" is usually the sender's domain, not their actual > > hostname, unless left unconfigured in Mutt. Regardless of which > > thing it is, it's going to be all over the message headers for the > > vast majority of Mutt users. In those cases when it won't, the > > user's IP address will be in them at least once (and might be > > anyway, depending on how the user emits mail into the SMTP ether > > and who it is talking to). REQUIRED. > > Nope, hostname it is, even if you're using built-in smtp.
False. Try it. Tell mutt your hostname is your domain name. This is a common configuration, so that mutt auto-generates your e-mail address as myn...@mydomain.org instead of myn...@myhost.myname.org. If you do that it will generate a message ID that is your domain, not your hostname. I actually tested this myself rather than blindly asserting it. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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