ilf <i...@zeromail.org> wrote: > Eric Wong: > > Without opening the above URLs, you can immediately tell it's from April > > 6, 2016. > > Message-IDs are not supposed to be human-meaningful:
<snip> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.4 That does not change the fact that they have been meaningful for years and people rely on it. Existing and historical use cases are more important than what RFCs say. I consider it natural human behavior to look for meaning in things that weren't intended to have meaning. > If you want URLs to be human-meaningful, don't use Message-ID. There's nothing else which can be used in URLs with any sort of robustness across different mail archives. > I for one thing Mutt shouldn't invent its own, but just use a random UUID, > like so many other MUAs. I use mutt because it's better than other MUAs; having meaningful Message-IDs is a small part of that.
