NAME¶

mgenmid — generate a Message-ID

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

mgenmid generates and prints a unique Message-ID. The Message-ID consists of an encrypted timestamp, a random value, and a fully qualified domain name.

The fully qualified domain name is arrived at by:

1. Using ‘FQDN:’ from ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/profile (if set).
2. Resolving the current hostname.
3. Using the domain component of the mail address in ‘Local-Mailbox:’ from ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/profile (if set).

If these steps don't result in a fully qualified domain name, mgenmid fails.

EXIT STATUS¶

The mgenmid utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO¶

mblaze-profile(5)

M. Curtin and J. Zawinski, Recommendations for generating Message IDs, draft-ietf-usefor-message-id-01.txt, July 1998.

AUTHORS¶

Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>

LICENSE¶

mgenmid is in the public domain.

To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/