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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Rama <rama@fastmail.com.au>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: thread id specification
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Rama <rama@fastmail.com.au> writes:

> Can anyone in-the-know shed some light on how notmuch generates its
> thread ids? Until recently, I'd only seen numeric thread ids 16
> characters long, padded with zeroes. For example:
>
> thread:0000000000000001
> thread:0000000000000002
> thread:0000000000000005
> etc etc
>
> Today, several new threads were created with non numeric ids:
>
> thread:000000000000000d
> thread:000000000000000e
> thread:000000000000000f
>

Those are numbers too, just hexadecimal.

d