On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Newsmirror wrote:

> > Is it really necessary ? Why ? ( I do have a suspect though )
>
> I think it would be useful to be able to get the version of the
> host in a reasonably easy manner. why, for reasons yet unknown,
> but might useful for a filter author to know when implementing
> backwards compat filters/externals the day specs change or for
> whatever other reason.

I knew it. the specification for filters *starting from version 0.00* has
been :

*Ignore* everything until <<MAIL-DATA>> and if you will rewrite the
message, leave those lines *intact* in your new file. This has been true
for years and it will be true forever. A filter written for version 0.00
will have to work with version 10.0, and the only thing that filters might
have in future in a more rich parameter passing. But this does not have to
be handled with magic version numbers but with good programming practices.




- Davide

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