At 09:22 17/1/01 -0500, Serge Knystautas wrote:
>Thanks for the info Pete. This actually give my an interesting idea... we
>could write mail repository that uses the MBOX format, with a setting
>ideally to either split the messages into separate files or an individual
>file. You couldn't use this kind of a mail repository for the spool as MBOX
>doesn't seem to handle any information outside of the MIME message itself
>(like the delivery and routing information),
yep it was originally designed for mail-readers and it was shoe-horned into
all sorts of crazy things. I am not sure how sendmail does it but qmail
will actually store the routing information in the way that it names it. I
can't remember the exact format so this is just made up but something like
<base>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2.e201.mbx
Would indicate that there the mail with id UXQW1234 for [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
spooled. It has already tried to be routed twice and last failure was a 201
error. Or even better
<base>/spool/biz.com/UXQW1234_bob:2.e201.mbx
would allow you to quickly find all the mail spooled for biz.com.
Anyways they are a bit hacky and qmail has to use softlinks to stop from
using up too much diskspace IIRC but it may be interesting to get qmail
compatability ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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