use strict; use warnings; package Email::MessageID; # ABSTRACT: Generate world unique message-ids. $Email::MessageID::VERSION = '1.406'; use overload '""' => 'as_string', fallback => 1; #pod =head1 SYNOPSIS #pod #pod use Email::MessageID; #pod #pod my $mid = Email::MessageID->new->in_brackets; #pod #pod print "Message-ID: $mid\x0D\x0A"; #pod #pod =head1 DESCRIPTION #pod #pod Message-ids are optional, but highly recommended, headers that identify a #pod message uniquely. This software generates a unique message-id. #pod #pod =method new #pod #pod my $mid = Email::MessageID->new; #pod #pod my $new_mid = Email::MessageID->new( host => $myhost ); #pod #pod This class method constructs an L object #pod containing a unique message-id. You may specify custom C and C #pod parameters. #pod #pod By default, the C is generated from C. #pod #pod By default, the C is generated using C's C #pod and the process ID. #pod #pod Using these values we have the ability to ensure world uniqueness down to #pod a specific process running on a specific host, and the exact time down to #pod six digits of microsecond precision. #pod #pod =cut sub new { my ($class, %args) = @_; $args{user} ||= $class->create_user; $args{host} ||= $class->create_host; my $str = "$args{user}\@$args{host}"; bless \$str => $class; } #pod =method create_host #pod #pod my $domain_part = Email::MessageID->create_host; #pod #pod This method returns the domain part of the message-id. #pod #pod =cut my $_SYS_HOSTNAME_LONG; sub create_host { unless (defined $_SYS_HOSTNAME_LONG) { $_SYS_HOSTNAME_LONG = (eval { require Sys::Hostname::Long; 1 }) || 0; require Sys::Hostname unless $_SYS_HOSTNAME_LONG; } return $_SYS_HOSTNAME_LONG ? Sys::Hostname::Long::hostname_long() : Sys::Hostname::hostname(); } #pod =method create_user #pod #pod my $local_part = Email::MessageID->create_user; #pod #pod This method returns a unique local part for the message-id. It includes some #pod random data and some predictable data. #pod #pod =cut my @CHARS = ('A'..'F','a'..'f',0..9); my %uniq; sub create_user { my $noise = join '', map {; $CHARS[rand @CHARS] } (0 .. (3 + int rand 6)); my $t = time; my $u = exists $uniq{$t} ? ++$uniq{$t} : (%uniq = ($t => 0))[1]; my $user = join '.', $t . $u, $noise, $$; return $user; } #pod =method in_brackets #pod #pod When using Email::MessageID directly to populate the C field, be #pod sure to use C to get the string inside angle brackets: #pod #pod header => [ #pod ... #pod 'Message-Id' => Email::MessageID->new->in_brackets, #pod ], #pod #pod Don't make this common mistake: #pod #pod header => [ #pod ... #pod 'Message-Id' => Email::MessageID->new->as_string, # WRONG! #pod ], #pod #pod =for Pod::Coverage address as_string host user #pod #pod =cut sub user { (split /@/, ${ $_[0] }, 2)[0] } sub host { (split /@/, ${ $_[0] }, 2)[1] } sub in_brackets { my ($self) = @_; return "<$$self>"; } sub address { my ($self) = @_; return "$$self"; } sub as_string { my ($self) = @_; return "$$self"; } 1; __END__ =pod =encoding UTF-8 =head1 NAME Email::MessageID - Generate world unique message-ids. =head1 VERSION version 1.406 =head1 SYNOPSIS use Email::MessageID; my $mid = Email::MessageID->new->in_brackets; print "Message-ID: $mid\x0D\x0A"; =head1 DESCRIPTION Message-ids are optional, but highly recommended, headers that identify a message uniquely. This software generates a unique message-id. =head1 METHODS =head2 new my $mid = Email::MessageID->new; my $new_mid = Email::MessageID->new( host => $myhost ); This class method constructs an L object containing a unique message-id. You may specify custom C and C parameters. By default, the C is generated from C. By default, the C is generated using C's C 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. =head2 create_host my $domain_part = Email::MessageID->create_host; This method returns the domain part of the message-id. =head2 create_user my $local_part = Email::MessageID->create_user; This method returns a unique local part for the message-id. It includes some random data and some predictable data. =head2 in_brackets When using Email::MessageID directly to populate the C field, be sure to use C to get the string inside angle brackets: header => [ ... 'Message-Id' => Email::MessageID->new->in_brackets, ], Don't make this common mistake: header => [ ... 'Message-Id' => Email::MessageID->new->as_string, # WRONG! ], =for Pod::Coverage address as_string host user =head1 AUTHORS =over 4 =item * Casey West =item * Ricardo SIGNES =back =head1 CONTRIBUTOR =for stopwords Aaron Crane Aaron Crane =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Casey West. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. =cut