ActionMailbox::InboundEmail::MessageId

The Message-ID as specified by rfc822 is supposed to be a unique identifier for that individual email. That makes it an ideal tracking token for debugging and forensics, just like X-Request-Id does for web request.

If an inbound email does not, against the rfc822 mandate, specify a Message-ID, one will be generated using the approach from Mail::MessageIdField.

Instance Public methods

create_and_extract_message_id!(source, **options)

Create a new InboundEmail from the raw source of the email, which is uploaded as an Active Storage attachment called raw_email. Before the upload, extract the Message-ID from the source and set it as an attribute on the new InboundEmail.

📝 Source code

# File actionmailbox/app/models/action_mailbox/inbound_email/message_id.rb, line 16
    def create_and_extract_message_id!(source, **options)
      message_checksum = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(source)
      message_id = extract_message_id(source) || generate_missing_message_id(message_checksum)

      create! options.merge(message_id: message_id, message_checksum: message_checksum) do |inbound_email|
        inbound_email.raw_email.attach io: StringIO.new(source), filename: "message.eml", content_type: "message/rfc822"
      end
    rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique
      nil
    end

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extract_message_id(source)

📝 Source code

# File actionmailbox/app/models/action_mailbox/inbound_email/message_id.rb, line 28
      def extract_message_id(source)
        Mail.from_source(source).message_id rescue nil
      end

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generate_missing_message_id(message_checksum)

📝 Source code

# File actionmailbox/app/models/action_mailbox/inbound_email/message_id.rb, line 32
      def generate_missing_message_id(message_checksum)
        Mail::MessageIdField.new("<#{message_checksum}@#{::Socket.gethostname}.mail>").message_id.tap do |message_id|
          logger.warn "Message-ID couldn't be parsed or is missing. Generated a new Message-ID: #{message_id}"
        end
      end

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