MGENMID(1)

📦 version 1.4, in alpine 3.24, debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ MGENMID ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to mgenmid, straight out of section 1 of the General Commands Manual 💅 this lil cutie has exactly one job and she does it flawlessly.

🎀 NAME 🎀

mgenmid — generate a Message-ID

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mgenmid

like. that's it. no flags. no args. she's low maintenance, she's iconic 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

mgenmid generates and prints a unique Message-ID. periodt. ✨

and what's inside this Message-ID, you ask? three lil ingredients, all mixed together:

  • an encrypted timestamp ⏰
  • a random value 🎲
  • a fully qualified domain name 🌐

now, the fully qualified domain name (the FQDN, iykyk) is arrived at by working through these steps, in order:

  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). 📬
and if these steps don't result in a fully qualified domain name, mgenmid fails. no FQDN, no Message-ID, no vibes. it's giving tough love 😭

💀 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/

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🌈✨ this one came from the Debian crew, dated December 25, 2018 — merry everything, mwah 💖🎀🦋

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