Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > "Host part" is pseudo, it's after the @ and can include most ASCII
> > printable characters.
> 
> Just read, say, 64 bytes from /dev/random and base64 encode it.

Would /dev/urandom suffice?  Entropy can be in short supply in some
environments, e.g. VMs, and given it's MH it may be being scripted to
send a few emails in a short time.

heirloom-mailx uses /dev/urandom with a fallback if it's not available.

Cheers, Ralph.