Question - Feature request ?

[Julian Field]

At 18:59 22/01/2002, you wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > But I have to start generating my own queue ids for new messages,
> > which I had wanted to avoid if possible. It varies with sendmail
> > version for starters, not to say that it is of course totally
> > different between sendmail and Exim. Any suggestions for coping with
> > this problem? We could start with 3 algorithms and run sendmail to
> > find its version number and choose the appropriate algorithm I guess.
>
>Given that the queue id's would only show up in the outgoing queue, why
>not use one algorithm?  What would the conflict be?

I am assuming that the various mailers only like to see queue files that
they think they generated.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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