[TriLUG] Email header message IDs

[Joseph S. Tate]

You should be able to rely on unique Message ID headers.


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Kristopher Kane
<kristopher.kane at gmail.com>wrote:

> Working on some email parsing of the TriLUG PiperMail archive and I was
> wondering about Message-ID: in the header.
>
> How *unique* are those? Perhaps a better question: Should I worry about
> collisions if I were to use it as a row ID?
>
> If it isn't very safe then I can always append ctime milliseconds to the
> end to ensure.
>
> -Kris
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Joseph Tate