[Django] What's the easiest/cleanest way to get the MessageID of a sent email?

Question

I want to save the MessageID of a sent email, so I can later use it in a References: header to facilitate threading.

I see in root/django/trunk/django/core/mail.py (line ~55) where the MessageID is created.

I'm trying to think of the best way to collect this value, other than just copy/pasting into a new backend module and returning it. Maybe that is the best way?

Answer 1

Ok, I see I was browsing tragically old code. I should be able to call django.core.mail.message.make_msgid() and populate the header myself before calling send.