----- Original Message ----- From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: saltstorm.xmail Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:17 AM Subject: [xmail] Re: small feature request
> > On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Newsmirror wrote: > > > from a filter, feels like a little overhead adding code > > for a socket connection just to determine the version. > > > > in perl, doable. in jscript/vbscript u cannot do sockets > > without 3rd party software, however spawning a CTRLclient.exe > > session would work, but not 100% available depending on setups. > > (CTRL my be disabled) > > > > a socket back-call as suggested per request is no-go in > > my performance book. I guess I have to think up something > > myself here then. > > I don't want to maintain another file to keep the version since it's very > likely that I'm going to forget to update it sooner or later. yes, that might happen. A suggestion would adding be adding a one-liner somewhere in the xmail startup routine. something like a C equivalent of echo $APP_VER > MAIL_ROOT/VERSION. That way you'd never have to care about doing it manually + it would be upgrade safe. > 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. /thomas. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
