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by survirtual 1322 days ago
Why is this complex…just take a sha3 hash of the email body + timestamp, then b58 it or format any way you want. Instant uuid per email.
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Yes, that's what I say elsewhere. Digest some of the headers (not all) and the body. If you do it right you can even use that for dedup.