Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?)

[JD]

  On 10/10/2010 02:57 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:07:10 -0700
> JD wrote:
>
>> Gmail does not keep track of email content to see
>> if it was the same message that sent by the user,
>> coming back to the user.
> It keeps track of message-id, and the message-id is the
> one it assigns when you send it and is the same as the
> one it has when it comes back.
I do not know for a fact if that is true, because
the message, when it comes from the list server,
doe snot say it is a forwarded message. I looks
like as if it was sent by the list server itself.

Is there a way to view the message ID before
it sent by the mail client You got me curious! :)