MS additional header line

[Dennis Willson]

OK, makes sense...

Would that full 'id' be available to a custom module that could add a 
header? If so he could write his own.


On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:05:46 +0100
  "Glenn Steen" <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 19/01/07, Dennis Willson <taz at taz-mania.com> wrote:
>>MailWatch.pm gets that 'id' from MailScanner. It's not generated by
>>MailWatch, just recorded (I looked at the MailWatch.pm code. I'm not
>>sure where MailScanner gets it. I assume the MTA, but I'm not sure. I
>>see the id he's referreing to... in the MailWatch database. This is
>>the same ID that is used to release quarantined Spam and Virus. So
>>MailScanner can relate that ID to a message.
>>
>>I believe he wants to be able to look at an emails headers and then 
>>go
>>to the 'jump to message' and enter the ID and go to the details and 
>>do
>>what ever he needs.
>>
>Quite correct Dennis, and it is the "queue file ID" that all MTAs 
>seem
>to have an incarnation of that it refers to (MailScanner get this 
>when
>it reads in a message into the batch and constructs the (perl) 
>message
>object). But this is a Postfix-ism biting him... Jules adds (at my
>request) some five random hex digits after a dot at the end of the
>"original" ID, to prevent queue file ID reuse (which is pretty common
>in Postfix) to create duplicate records in MailWatch (and possibly 
>any
>other database logging apps).
>So the information he needs to do that nice cut'n'paste is only
>partially there in the headers. See my other post for "workarounds".
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