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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: <92Sep07.1500.19515@crash.canon.co.uk>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 14:00:07 GMT
- References: <92Sep01.1346.2636@nlserver.canon.co.uk> <92Sep04.1912.18284@crash.canon.co.uk>
- Sender: Tim F O'Donoghue <uunet!canon!tim>
- Organization: me myself and i
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- I'm sure I'll go to hell for this (ie following up to my own followup to
- my own message, the devil's own one man thread) but:
-
- The original question:
- ||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.
-
- A solution was in sight (or so I thought):
- |[...] backquotes are evaluated
- |in the *elmheaders* file
-
- ie I can put the following line in my *elmheaders* file:
- |Message-Id: `date +\<%y%h%d.%H%M.$$$USER@canon.co.uk\>`
-
- Unfortunately this doesn't work because the backquotes are evaluated
- *twice*, once for the outgoing mail and once for the copy. Ie, the
- outgoing Message-Id will be something like <92Sep07.1446.19501...>
- while the copy will contain <92Sep07.1446.19500...>. So close but yet
- so far...
-
- Tx. [the original question still stands]
- --
- Tim F O'Donoghue <tim@crash.canon.co.uk> <uunet!canon!tim>
-