NAME

Email::MessageID - Generate world unique message-ids.

SYNOPSIS

  use Email::MessageID;

  my $mid = Email::MessageID->new;

  print "Message-ID: $mid\x0A\x0D";

DESCRIPTION

Message-ids are optional, but highly recommended, headers that identify a message uniquely. This software generates a unique message-id.

Methods

new

  my $mid = Email::MessageID->new;

  my $new_mid = Email::MessageID->new( host => $myhost );

This class method constructs an Email::Address object containing a unique message-id. You may specify custom host and user parameters.

By default, the host is generated from Sys::Hostname::hostname.

By default, the user is generated using Time::HiRes's gettimeofday and the process ID.

Using these values we have the ability to ensure world uniqueness down to a specific process running on a specific host, and the exact time down to six digits of microsecond precision.

create_host

  my $domain_part = Email::Address->create_host;

This method returns the domain part of the message-id.

create_user

  my $local_part = Email::Address->create_user;

This method returns a unique local part for the message-id. It includes some random data and some predictable data.

SEE ALSO

the Email::Address manpage, the Time::HiRes manpage, the Sys::Hostname manpage, the perl manpage.

PERL EMAIL PROJECT

This module is maintained by the Perl Email Project.

http://emailproject.perl.org/wiki/Email::MessageID

AUTHOR

Casey West, <casey@geeknest.com>.

COPYRIGHT

  Copyright (c) 2004 Casey West.  All rights reserved.
  This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  under the same terms as Perl itself.