Long queue IDs in Postfix

[Jerry Benton]

Alvaro,

Thank you. If you get a chance to test it on 5.0.3, which is the
latest stable version, let me know. I will try to take a look at it.
Mark may as well as he also uses Postfix.


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Jerry Benton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alvaro Marín <alvaro at hostalia.com>
Reply: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Date: August 29, 2016 at 9:57:44 AM
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject:  Long queue IDs in Postfix

> Hi,
>
> I've this issue opened in github:
>
> https://github.com/MailScanner/v5/issues/15
>
> I've enabled long_queue_ids in Postfix (with hash_queue_depth disabled)
> and MailScanner works fine, but when it requeues the message, it creates
> one message with a short queue ID format:
>
> MailScanner[14209]: Requeue: 3sK7N64rr3zJX5T.A6FFB to D74D7218040
>
> The HDOutFileName function generates it in Postfix.pm:
>
> $file = sprintf("%05X%lX", int(rand 1000000)+1, (stat($file))[1]);
>
> that should be in a long format.
> Reading Postfix's code, I see:
>
> /*
>
> The long non-repeating queue ID is encoded in an alphabet of 10 digits,
> 21 upper-case characters, and 21 or fewer lower-case characters. The
> alphabet is made "safe" by removing all the vowels (AEIOUaeiou). The ID
> is the concatenation of:
> - the time in seconds (base 52 encoded, six or more chars),
> - the time in microseconds (base 52 encoded, exactly four chars),
> - the 'z' character to separate the time and inode information,
> - the inode number (base 51 encoded so that it contains no 'z'). */
>
> So I've created a patch that implements this functionality (if long
> queue ids format is enabled, if not, it will be generated as usual).
>
> I'm running MailScanner-4.84.5-3 (with the patch to manage long queue
> IDs from 4.85.1-1 version) and it runs fine (the patch attached is done
> against last stable release code of MailScanner); I'll be watching it
> for some days.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Alvaro Marín Illera
> Hostalia Internet
> www.hostalia.com
>
>
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