[Pan-devel] Proposition for generating message-id

[Miroslav Sabljic]

Hi guys!

I was looking how Pan generates Message-id header and in my humble 
opinion is that it should be improved. Pan is now generating message-id 
in format address@hidden and as far as I can see it 
there can happen a situation where two users could end up with the same 
msg-ids. For example plenty of users are now using gmail address so the 
msg-id part right of @ sign will be the same for plenty of users. Lets 
say that two users who are both using gmail address and they are placed 
in different timezones send their message, one sends his message exactly 
at 12:00:01 and other one exactly at 14:00:01, they will end up with the 
same message-id.

Please correct me if I'm wrong?

Most other newsreaders generate msg-id with some random letter/number 
combination and with some static string at the end or at the beginning 
of the string. This is example msg-id generated by slrn.

<address@hidden>

I'm willing to write code for this if you guys agree and if you think 
that it would benefit pan as an improvement.


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Best regards,
  Miroslav