On 2007-03-29 Navroz Shariff wrote: > On Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:02 PM Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote: >> On 2007-03-27 Simson Garfinkel wrote: >>>>> I am trying to find the format of mac.com message-ids. The following >>>>> are examples of message-id's received in emails from mac.com. >>>>> >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] >>> No. He's looking for a meaning of what they mean. >> >> Well, they're message-IDs, they don't mean anything by themselves. >> They're just supposed to be unique identifiers for a given message >> (e-mail, in particular). > > Is there a 1-to-1 mapping between message IDs and the email address of > the host or do the message IDs change?
A message-ID is supposed to be unique to any given message, whereas an e-mail address obviously isn't. So, no, there's no 1:1 mapping between them. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
