Question about message id

[Dan Ritter]

Cameron Simpson wrote: 
> On 07Apr2024 13:19, Ебрашка <ebrashka at riseup.net> wrote:
> > Question, what should I write in .muttrc to make my outgoing mails have
> > the same beautiful message-ID as Yandex mail?
> > For example Message-Id: <43265435 at example.com> consisting of random
> > digits and domain name
> 
> I think it would be enough to supply your own message-id header; I don't
> think it is necessarily mutt making it at all. Mutt hands messages to a mail
> system, and a mail system adds a message-id if one is missing.
> 
> You could (a) turn on "set edit_headers=yes" so the headers are visible in
> your message and (b) have your editor startup make one?
> 
> _Or_ you could "set sendmail=" to a script of your own to add a message-id
> header - that is what mutt uses to deliver the message to a mail system -
> you could add a header there then pass the message on to whatever you had
> mutt using before.

And don't be overly clever and set a custom header to a script
that produces a message-id; that will get evaluated when mutt
starts and not again for every message, thus defeating the
point.

Please don't ask me how I know.


-dsr-