What, merak provide any help? Surely you jest.. <wink> I had to figure it out on my own. It was by accident that I figured out the byte before the IP is the IP's length.
Glad it helps. Merak is a great mail server but expensive and support (at least from my experience) asn't been that great. Best, Chris Eric B. wrote: > "Chris Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> I wrote both the original merak PopB4SMTP routine and the revamped, 2nd >> one. >> >> I cut my teeth on Perl writing that function! The first one was very >> poor, but once I figured out the binary format of the file, I wrote the >> 2nd that takes the length of the IP address and prepends the IP with >> that byte value. Then it parses the PopB4SMTP file. It was *much* >> faster and the function seems to have continued to live within the source. >> >> What version of Merak are you using? I'm several version behind you so >> I'm curious if they've changed the PopB4SMTP file format. >> > > Thanks so much for that contribution! It really made the migration easier > for me / my users. Although at this point, I have disabled it, I still > found it extremely useful to start with. I am running Merak 8.0.3, and the > binary format still held true. BTW - did you figure out / reverse engineer > that file format on your own, or did Merak actually give you any > help/support with it? > > Thanks again, > > Eric > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Assp-user mailing list > Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
