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41 From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
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42 To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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43 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Add 'compose' command
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51 <CAMP44s1117VXAOnURjFAeva93oiJsKKPji4awN_SoNFo0QvPPw@mail.gmail.com>User-Agent: Notmuch/0.12+81~g839a805 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1
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74 On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
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75 > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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76 >> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:34:30 +0300, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
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77 >>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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79 >>> > Running "notmuch compose" more than once within a second would result in
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80 >>> > identical message ids for the messages, which is not a good idea. That's
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81 >>> > not likely in interactive use, but the notmuch cli is highly scriptable,
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82 >>> > so someone is bound to hit this.
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84 >>> > Some paranoid might also be worried about "leaking" the time you run
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85 >>> > "notmuch compose"... which may be different from the actual time you
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86 >>> > send the message.
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88 >>> It's still better than the current situation; nothing. In any case,
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89 >>> people that have not needed this would not be affected; their UI would
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90 >>> override the Message-ID.
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92 >>> So do you have a better suggestion for a Message-ID?
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94 >> The easy way would be to just use g_mime_utils_generate_message_id()
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95 >> [1]. It doesn't give you any control of the part before @, but I'm not
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96 >> sure if that really matters.
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98 > This is what gmime does:
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99 > g_strdup_printf ("%lu.%lu.%lu@%s", (unsigned long int) time (NULL),
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100 > (unsigned long int) getpid (), count++, fqdn);
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102 > Which actually has some of the issues you mentioned.
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104 Thanks for looking into gmime source. The implementation is a bit of a
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107 > I can do the same if you want (add pid and count). The advantage of
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108 > using our own format is that not only would it be more unique, but it
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109 > would not have "@fqdn".
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111 I'm starting to think doing our own would be the best, although I
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112 wouldn't object to using the gmime implementation "for now".
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114 >> Alternatively you can write your own according to e.g. [2]. Glib appears
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115 >> to have decent and portable support for pseudo random number
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116 >> generation. But why bother? I'd go with gmime.
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118 > But gmime doesn't have anything random. I would actually prefer to
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119 > have something random though.
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