From: sera@... (Francis Hwang)
Date: 2004-04-27T05:19:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the Message-Id for an outgoing email

That solution probably would've worked, except I've already got a
bunch of code that looks a lot like that anyway and switching would've
been a pain. I ended up just implementing it myself following Jamie
Zawinski's recommendations at http://www.jwz.org/doc/mid.html .

Francis

why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote in message news:<40846067.9070209@whytheluckystiff.net>...
> Francis Hwang wrote:
> 
> >Anybody know how I can get the Message-Id that's assigned to an
> >outgoing message when I send by using the SMTP class? It looks like I
> >can set the Message-Id myself, so then I'll have it, but that seems
> >like a lot of work. It'd be just easier to let sendmail set it and get
> >it back.
> >
> >Francis
> >  
> >
> This doesn't solve the problem the way you've asked, but perhaps it's 
> good enough.  Have you scrutinized RubyMail? [1]  It's really good.  
> I've had to gus around with e-mail quite a bit lately and this package 
> has cut my work in half.
> 
> So, here's the deal with it: it's a library for parsing e-mail, but you 
> can also generate new messages with it.  It has an add_message_id method 
> in the RMail::Header class that will generate new message IDs for you.
> 
>   msg = RMail::Message.new
>   msg.header['To'] = 'you@rubyadventureparadise.com'
>   msg.header['From'] = 'me@rubyflavouredbrandsoda.com'
>   msg.body = 'I like you sooo much.  Come have soda!'
>   msg.header.add_message_id
> 
>   msg_id = mail.header.message_id
>   Net::SMTP.start( 'localhost' ) do |smtp|
>     smtp.send_message( msg.to_s, msg.header['From'], msg.header['To'] )
>   end
> 
> Something like that.  Haven't tested that last part, but forage thru the 
> docs. [2]  Start with 'guide/Intro.txt'.
> 
> _why
> 
> [1] http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/
> [2] http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/rubymail/doc/