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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!canon.co.uk!tim
- From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: custom message-ids
- Message-ID: <92Sep04.1912.18284@crash.canon.co.uk>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 18:12:48 GMT
- References: <92Sep01.1346.2636@nlserver.canon.co.uk>
- Sender: Tim F O'Donoghue
- Organization: me myself and i
- Lines: 24
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- Much as I hate to follow up to my own articles...
-
- In <92Sep01.1346.2636@nlserver.canon.co.uk>, I asked:
- :
- |Does elm allow you to generate your own Message-IDs? I ask because I'd
- |like to have the Message-ID in the copy that I keep of outbound messages.
-
- Well, if I'd RTFM then I would have seen that backquotes are evaluated
- in the *elmheaders* file, well, something like one per line anyway (not
- real backquote evaluation -- it looks like everything following the
- second backquote is ignored on the line). I really wanted to do:
-
- Message-Id: <`date +%y%h%d.%H%M.$$$USER@``hostname`.`domainname`>
-
- but because of the limited backquote evaluation I ended up doing:
-
- Message-Id: `date +\<%y%h%d.%H%M.$$$USER@canon.co.uk\>`
-
- ie, I hard wired in my domain. I could have written a script to wrap
- around the multiple backquoted things but that was going a bit too far.
-
- Tx. [apologies for asking a question whose answer i should have known]
- --
- check my header - travelling hard at the speed of thought
-