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		jgalt212 on May 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A PDF zine readable in any plain text editor, and ... Can you search on that via a Gmail or Outlook client? I did not think you could, and we were looking for shorter strings. e.g. 10 character Base58 string gets you approx 10^17 uniques.

easrng on May 14, 2022 | [–]

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leephillips on May 14, 2022 | [–]

I don’t know, but you certainly can in real email clients such as mutt.

When I want to store a reference to an email in a note, I use the MessageID. It’s already there in every message, and it’s supposed to be unique.

jgalt212 on May 15, 2022 | [–]

as above

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