David Carter wrote:
All from:
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/cyrus/patches/2.3.8/
sha1_uuid_replace.patch
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Throw away the existing UUID apparatus (in particular the environment
value CYRUS_UUID_PREFIX used to pass state from master to imapd and
lmtpd). Replace it with simple 20 byte UUIDs which are the message SHA1.
Any existing UUIDs are reset to NIL. I suppose that it would be possible
to pad the existing 12 byte UUIDs to 20 bytes: the chance of a collision
is remote.
I'm beginning to sift through this patch in an effort to implement what
we had discussed privately. Some initial questions:
- Do we still need the "uuid_mode" option in imap.conf?
- Can I assume that any mention of "provide_uuid" in the documentation
can be removed?
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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University
