#!/usr/bin/perl # we make a "fake" message id by taking the current number # of seconds since the beginning of Unix time and tacking on # a random number to the end, in case we are called quicker than # 1 second since the last time we were called. my $date = `date "+\%s"`; my $hostname = `hostname -d`; chomp($date); my $pseudo_rand = int (rand(4200)); $message_id = "$date$pseudo_rand\@$hostname"; print "$message_id";