NAME

     mgenmid — generate a Message-ID

SYNOPSIS

     mgenmid

DESCRIPTION

     mgenmid generates and prints a unique Message-ID.  The Message-ID consists of an encrypted
     timestamp, a random value, and a fully qualified domain name.

     The fully qualified domain name is arrived at by:

     1.   Using ‘FQDN:’ from ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/profile (if set).

     2.   Resolving the current hostname.

     3.   Using the domain component of the mail address in ‘Local-Mailbox:’ from
          ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/profile (if set).

     If these steps don't result in a fully qualified domain name, mgenmid fails.

EXIT STATUS

     The mgenmid utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     mblaze-profile(5)

     M. Curtin and J. Zawinski, Recommendations for generating Message IDs, draft-ietf-usefor-
     message-id-01.txt, July 1998.

AUTHORS

     Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>

LICENSE

     mgenmid is in the public domain.

     To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and
     related or neighboring rights to this work.

     http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/