Re: [monit-dev] Patch to ensure unique message-ids for notification mails

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Thanks for the report, instead of random I use a sequence number, but  
the idea is the same.

On 4. mai. 2008, at 19.35, Steve Purcell wrote:

> I noticed that distinct monit notification mails were getting  
> detected as duplicates; this can happen if a few services are  
> restarted in the same polling period, for example, and is due to  
> monit using only the UNIX time to build Message-Id headers.
>
> Here's a suggested patch to make those headers somewhat more unique:
>
> diff -r1.62 sendmail.c
> 190c190
> <     do_send(&S, "Message-id: <address@hidden>\r\n", time(NULL),  
> S.localhost);
> ---
> >     do_send(&S, "Message-id: <address@hidden>\r\n", time(NULL),  
> random(), S.localhost);
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> -Steve