Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Add 'compose' command

Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Add 'compose' command

Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:43:43 +0400

To: Felipe Contreras

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Dmitry Kurochkin


Hi Felipe.

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
>
>> Running "notmuch compose" more than once within a second would result in
>> identical message ids for the messages, which is not a good idea. That's
>> not likely in interactive use, but the notmuch cli is highly scriptable,
>> so someone is bound to hit this.
>>
>> Some paranoid might also be worried about "leaking" the time you run
>> "notmuch compose"... which may be different from the actual time you
>> send the message.
>
> It's still better than the current situation; nothing. In any case,
> people that have not needed this would not be affected; their UI would
> override the Message-ID.
>

I disagree.  If notmuch CLI generates a Message-ID, it must be a good
one.  Otherwise we make users falsely believe that they do have a proper
Message-ID while in fact they do not.  And that would bite them sooner
or later.

Regards,
  Dmitry

> So do you have a better suggestion for a Message-ID?
>
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras
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