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Outlook express header format

Version 6 of Outlook Express running on Microsoft Windows generates headers in the format:

Message-ID: <000f10c7183d$abe4d510$6031a8c0@hostname>
From: "Username" <username@sendinghost.com>
To: "Username" <username@receivinghost.com>
Subject: Testing
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:11:45 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
    charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807

Message ID Field

The Message-ID have 4 parts: [hex time]\$[random?]\$[hw-hash?]@[hostname]