On 05/01/2023 11:49, Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-dev wrote:
I have been reading about exim message ids (for enhancement https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2956 ). I see that the code has both src/config.h.defaults:#define MAX_LOCALHOST_NUMBER 256 and src/exim.h-#if BASE_62 == 62 src/exim.h:# define LOCALHOST_MAX 16 src/exim.h-#else src/exim.h:# define LOCALHOST_MAX 10 src/exim.h-#endif
MAX_LOCALHOST_NUMBER appears to be historical and redundant. The only mentions are config.h.defaults and comments in two makefiles for no-longer-supported platforms. It's use went away in 4.14 (about January 2003) when the message-id stuff started tracking time resolution rather than "how many IDs are probably safe in a slot", and it wasn't properly cleaned out. [ I have a git repo made-up from old releases; if anyone needs to spelunk I'll work out how to make it visible again. If anyone knows how to safely *prefix* versions to a git repo history, they could appear in the main repo - but I doubt that can be done. ] Now would be a good time, since you've noticed it. -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
