Apple Mail Header Format - Revision history

Jessek at 23:54, 2 April 2007

2007-04-02T23:54:07Z

Jessek: Added UUID and random notes

2007-03-31T01:03:07Z

Added UUID and random notes

Jessek at 21:50, 30 March 2007

2007-03-30T21:50:29Z

Jessek: New page: Apple Mail version 2.1 generates email headers in the following format:

Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Messa...

2007-02-27T01:25:53Z

New page: Apple Mail version 2.1 generates email headers in the following format: <pre>Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Messa...

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[[Apple Mail]] version 2.1 generates [[Email Headers|email headers]] in the following format:
<pre>Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <38D1C1FD-3C35-4568-925C-FC46CAC0DE8A@sendinghost.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=US-ASCII;
format=flowed
To: Other User <otheruser@receivinghost.com>
From: User Name <username@sendinghost.com>
Subject: Subject Line
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:21:57 -0500</pre>

The algorithm for generating the Message-Id is not known.

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−	The message-id appears to be a random, or version 4, [[Universally Unique Identifier]]. By default [[OS X]] includes a command line program <tt>uuidgen</tt> that can be used to generate such values.	+	The message-id appears to be a random, or version 4, [[Universally Unique Identifier]]. By default [[Mac OS X]] includes a command line program <tt>uuidgen</tt> that can be used to generate such values.

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−	The message-id appears to be a [[Universally Unique Identifier]]. By default [[OS X]] includes a command line program <tt>uuidgen</tt> that can be used to generate ~~these~~ values.	+	The message-id appears to be a random, or version 4, [[Universally Unique Identifier]]. By default [[OS X]] includes a command line program <tt>uuidgen</tt> that can be used to generate such values.

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−	The ~~algorithm for generating the Message~~-~~Id is not known~~.	+	The message-id appears to be a [[Universally Unique Identifier]]. By default [[OS X]] includes a command line program <tt>uuidgen</tt> that can be used to generate these values.