} On Mon 09 Sep, Chris Thompson wrote:
} > Just why do smail and exim use base 62 numbers in message ids, anyway?
}
} Force of habit.
And its nice and easy to do! 09-A-Za-z = 62 characters!
If it was being done from scratch I suppose that Base64 might be
used, except that / in an ID or spool file name could be embarassing!
You need to encode the date/inode somehow in a method short enough to
acceptable to *old* 14 char limit file name systems (at least smail
did - exim just followed!).
Nigel.
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