Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
I must have missed that conversation. I use -msgid for the same reason
Tom does.
Well, you're only ... 5 months out of date? :-) Only thing you have to
really pay attention to is your components files, if you aren't using
the defaults.
6 months, actually. I took a vacation day yesterday so I could get
caught up :-).
[Desperately trying to catch up on old mail before installing 1.5 and
adapting MH-E this long weekend and wondering what's going to become of
the -msgid flag when I do that...]
It's still there and works fine.
Great, thanks!
The next release of nmh will have
a -messageid flag to send to let you change how Message-IDs are
generated. But -msgid will still be around, and I don't think
that's going to change ever. I am letting you know up front that
if you ask a question about 1.5 that is in the release notes I will
make fun of you on the list :-)
Agreed!
This brings up a question I always had back when we had this discussion ...
what are people keeping those Message-IDs for, anyway? I remember Ralph
Corderoy saying that he likes to tell people "I said that in message
<message-id>" ... I know if I tried that with the people I exchange email
with, they wouldn't have any idea what I'm talking about.
In general, it makes it easier to find a sent message or a reply to that
message. A specific use case is that sometimes I'll refer to the
Message-ID of a message (sent or received) as a source for additional
information for a task I create in Remember the Milk.
It also turns out to be incredibly handy when replying to a message in
your +outbox since the reply can create a useful In-Reply-To header
field (see below), highlighted in one of two MH-E bug reports involving
-msgid:
Add Message-ID to outgoing messages
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=725425&group_id=13357&atid=113357
spost doesn't have -msgid or -mime flags
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=313357&aid=1486726&group_id=13357
As a result of the first item, MH-E now calls send -msgid since if you
reply to a message in your outbox that doesn't have a Message-ID, an
In-Reply-To header field is created that breaks threading at the
recipient's end.
Given the demise of spost, I chuckled when I spotted the second item.
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