Found nn messages in the processing-messages database

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Apr 20 12:25:12 IST 2009


Thanks Glenn, you took the words right out of my mouth.
4.76-13 will be out in 2 minutes.

On 20/04/2009 11:44, Glenn Steen wrote:
> 2009/4/20 Kai Schaetzl<maillists at conactive.com>:
>    
>> Julian Field wrote on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:08:05 +0100:
>>
>>      
>>> No, for everything with Postfix. It will just mean a change in algorithm
>>> to produce the 5-digit key, no change in logging, data stored or
>>> anything else.
>>>        
>> Julian, I would be grateful if you could provide the direct use of the
>> postfix ids as an option. I'm not seeing any reason to use them on my
>> setups, they do not repeat over a long time. Where are those setups that
>> "need" it? In mailing list postings from 5 years ago? I'm still waiting
>> that someone raises his hand and says "yes, it repeats for us at least
>> daily".
>>
>>      
> Well, then you haven't got a particularly large/lengthy SQL log (like
> for MailWatch), have you? If you had, you'd see the problem. Also
> depends on fs, of course.
>
>    
>> And I don't see how changing the algorithm for the five-letter-word would
>> solve the problem with the processing database.
>>
>>      
> If you go from totally random to deterministic/file, you'd still get
> the needed uniqueness as well as the same key for the same queue file
> (in the processing DB)... Which seems to be the problem needing to be
> solved...?
>
>    
>> Kai
>>
>>      
> Cheers
>    

Jules

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