Rainer Gerhards writes: > > The PROGNAME part is special, as it is frequently used by relays to > > determine the routing of a message. As a note to implementors: it > > can be found by getting the visual part before the first occurrence > > of '[', and after the last '\' of '/' part of that segment.
> mmhhh... I can see the reasoning for this, but do you think we really > need to allow [ inside the path? Without it, implementing would be > easier. In my experience, parsing strings backwards (as would be > required) seems somehow more error-prone than forward parsing (but maybe > it's just me failing in those cases ;)) Just to inform: * It not needed to parse backward. It can be done in 1 for-loop (see my implementation) * Currerently, several (Unix) programmes use this path approach. The log tags like " postfix/local[33282]:" * I did found posting from this WG that resulted in this idea. I think Rainer posted some Window alinke paths as "C\to\Progrmam" ;-) Hope it help -- ALbert Mietus Send prive mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send business mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't send spam mail!