On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 17:11, Csaba Nagy wrote: > No, it's not a global unique identifier. [snip]
Hey, you know what ? Good that I read this thread :D I'm in the process of writing a Java SMTP server, and had no clue about this rule... although I have read a few times the relevant RFC. It's true that currently I don't touch the mail, I just use internal IDs which I don't care if they are not globally unique, but if those IDs would have made it to the final product in some mails, there would have been some chance for collisions... as some other poster said, there is a good chance of non-conforming MTAs to be out there. Cheers, Csaba. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
