Pine Header Format - Revision history

Jessek: Added for case with no hostname

2007-03-06T19:34:27Z

Added for case with no hostname

Jessek: Added version numbers to Message-ID

2007-03-06T19:29:40Z

Added version numbers to Message-ID

Jessek: Initial version

2007-03-06T19:28:58Z

Initial version

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[[Pine]] composes headers in the following format:

<pre>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:10:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Sender Name <sender@host.com>
To: Getter Name <getter@otherhost.com>
cc: Other Person <somebody@somehost.com>
Subject: The subject text
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703061056380.29699@host.com></pre>

Using the function <tt>generate_message_id</tt> in the file <tt>reply.c</tt> we can see that the format for the Message-ID line is a series of fields separated by periods, followed by the <tt>@</tt> symbol and the hostname of the sending machine. The fields are

# The word <tt>Pine</tt>
# A three letter version of the operating system name (e.g. <tt>LNX</tt> for Linux)
# A number YYMMDDHHmmssX, Where YY is the last two digits of the year, MM the current month, DD the current day of the month, HH the current hour, mm the current minute, ss the current second, and X is either a zero or one depending on the number of seconds.
# The current process ID number

Note that the timestamp in the Message-Id may not necessarily match the <tt>Date</tt> line.

The hostname can be [[ROT-13]] encrypted on some configurations.

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	Note that the timestamp in the Message-Id may not necessarily match the <tt>Date</tt> line.		Note that the timestamp in the Message-Id may not necessarily match the <tt>Date</tt> line.

−	The hostname can be [[ROT-13]] encrypted on some configurations.	+	The hostname can be [[ROT-13]] encrypted on some configurations. If the hostname is not defined, the value <tt>huh</tt> will be used.

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 # The word <tt>Pine</tt>
 # A three letter version of the operating system name (e.g. <tt>LNX</tt> for Linux)
 # A number YYMMDDHHmmssX, Where YY is the last two digits of the year, MM the current month, DD the current day of the month, HH the current hour, mm the current minute, ss the current second, and X is either a zero or one depending on the number of seconds.
 # The current process ID number