Subj : Re: Synchronet config change
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Thu Mar 07 2024 10:32 am
Re: Re: Synchronet config change
By: Wilfred van Velzen to Rob Swindell on Thu Mar 07 2024 08:14 am
> Hi Rob,
>
> On 06 Mar 24 17:31, Rob Swindell wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
> about: "Re: Synchronet config change":
>
> >> RS> @MSGID: 1:103/705 65e8cd2a
> >>
> >> Finally a normal MSGID from a synchronet system! ;-)
>
> RS> Yeah, and it's a clearly-flawed one at that:
> RS> time_t 1709755690 (0x65E8CD2A) ISO 2024-03-06 12:08:10.000-08:00
>
> That isn't a problem as long as it doesn't re-use it in 3 years. And it
> doesn't.
It would be a problem if any other agent on my system created a message at that same second using that same broken message-ID format. The timestamp should never be used as the serial number.
https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:misc#ftn_msgid
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