On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: =>Slepp Lukwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: =>> =>> The base question after that comes to be, when tracking a message through =>> the queue for historical reasons, would using the inode number be a =>> realistic possibility for a unique identifier => =>Inode number is guaranteed to be unique at any given instant.
So it will eventually be reused, and thereby over a year long period will more than likely be used many more times than once. Alright. =>> or would the message ID be a more appropriate (while harder to find) =>> item to track? => =>Message-IDs are only theoretically unique. In practice, they collide =>all too often. That's unfortunate.. Has anyone ever considered placing in an MTA Message-ID that can be more or less considered unique among all IDs? I figure this would be a trivial thing, but I wonder if it has practical application. -- | Stephen "Slepp" Olesen / VE6SLP | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada / (780) 425-4798 | President of Geeks Anonymous + http://www.geeksanon.ca/ +---------------------------------
