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Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs
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Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:24:25 +0100 |
Hi,
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > "Host part" is pseudo, it's after the @ and can include most ASCII
> > printable characters.
>
> Just read, say, 64 bytes from /dev/random and base64 encode it.
Would /dev/urandom suffice? Entropy can be in short supply in some
environments, e.g. VMs, and given it's MH it may be being scripted to
send a few emails in a short time.
heirloom-mailx uses /dev/urandom with a fallback if it's not available.
Cheers, Ralph.
- [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, David Levine, 2012/07/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Tom Lane, 2012/07/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2012/07/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs,
Ralph Corderoy <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Ken Hornstein, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, valdis . kletnieks, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Ken Hornstein, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Tom Lane, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2012/07/19