# Every email should have a unique Message-ID

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/every-email-should-have-a-unique-message-id/92746>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [7월 19, 2018, 7:02오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/every-email-should-have-a-unique-message-id/92746 "2018-07-19T19:02:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Post date:** [7월 20, 2018, 8:20오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/every-email-should-have-a-unique-message-id/92746/9 "2018-07-20T20:20:27Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> so the identifier actually makes sense versus “here’s a random string!”

It really doesn’t need to make sense - “random string” is VERY typical.

If you want it to, I would do both - add the target user.id as well as random data (who knows - perhaps it’s possible now or in the future for the same user to be emailed about a post twice).

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