Re: Filename guarantees

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On January 17, 2002 at 22:39, J C Lawrence wrote:

> > I might also throw in that the M-ID is intended to be unique per
> > message, but that in some cases (non-compliant, broken mailers or
> > list-software) it might not turn out to be, so MHonArc should
> > provide a means of detecting if a M-ID is already used as an
> > identifier (filename) and then select a replacement one (add a
> > suffix?).
> 
> Given that MHonArc currently generates locally unique Message-IDs
> for messages without them < i doubt this is a problem.

Only for messages that do not have message-ids.  This way, the
auto-generation overhead is only done for, hopefully, a minority of
messages.  If Digest::MD5 is being used (which is the case if
installed), there is still a risk of two different messages being
considered the same since the md5 is only computed for the message
header.

--ewh