Re: Message-ID as unique key?

Well, this is for my personal mail...I think I will
probably give it a try.

The program can log errors so in the few cases that
might occur I think I can "manufacture" my own message
id.

I guess that the bottom line is that if it exists it
is unique...

Jerry

On Oct 12, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Doug McNaught wrote:

> Jerry LeVan <jerry(dot)levan(at)eku(dot)edu> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am futzing around with Andrew Stuarts "Catchmail" program
>> that stores emails into a postgresql database.
>>
>> I want to avoid inserting the same email more than once...
>> (pieces of the email actually get emplaced into several
>> tables).
>>
>> Is the "Message-ID" header field a globally unique identifer?
>
> It is intended to be, but since it is generated by either the MUA or
> the first MTA that sees the message, there is a lot of scope for
> broken software to screw things up.
>
> -Doug
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