Well, this is for my personal mail...I think I will
probably give it a try.
The program can log errors so in the few cases that
might occur I think I can "manufacture" my own message
id.
I guess that the bottom line is that if it exists it
is unique...
Jerry
On Oct 12, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Doug McNaught wrote:
Jerry LeVan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi,
I am futzing around with Andrew Stuarts "Catchmail" program
that stores emails into a postgresql database.
I want to avoid inserting the same email more than once...
(pieces of the email actually get emplaced into several
tables).
Is the "Message-ID" header field a globally unique identifer?
It is intended to be, but since it is generated by either the MUA or
the first MTA that sees the message, there is a lot of scope for
broken software to screw things up.
-Doug
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