Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> <URL:http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html> says:
>> # If you're delivering several messages from one process, use
>> # starttime.pid_count.host, where starttime is the time that your
>> # process started, and count is the number of messages you've
>> # delivered.
...
> I'm actually curious why djb specified this as the process start time,
> rather than the current time.
I imagine he was thinking of processes that just do a few deliveries
and then exit, rather than long-running processes that only do
deliveries once in a while.
> I see no obvious advantage to using the start time,
I suppose it saves you the trouble of reformatting the time into the
filename for each delivery.
> Personally, I would lean to using the current time instead of start
> time, and would not bother with resetting count; it has no harmful
> effects.
I'll probably reset the count anyway, just to make it look nicer. I
could even omit the count for the first delivery in a given second.
paul
