On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:38:20PM -0400, Marc Hartstein wrote: > > I have just checked into maildir...I thought I remembered something from > the last time I looked at it: maildir filenames are of the form > 'time.pid.host:info', and are supposedly unique. If the desired name is > already taken, the MDA sleeps for 2s then tries again. [see man maildir]
Please ignore this part...a minute's further research suggests that this should probably not be relied upon...certainly the pid section is no longer necessarily a pid, and it might be naive to trust that the time is really a time, or indeed that there's any structure to the stuff before the (possible) colon.
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