On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Piete Brooks wrote:
> > Of course, exim's scheme of double /input files has a lot going for it
> > in other respects. Is this sort of repair job just something one has to
> > give up as a consequence? Has anyone had any interesting disk crashes while
> > running exim, and what were they able to do?
>
> The *-H and msglog/ files could easily have the ID included in them,
> [[ not *really* needed, as the msglog/ file has the Message-ID ]]
> but as the *-D cannot, one would have to make do with the the inode info
> (inode number, date, size, ...) and a `sum' of the *-D in the *-H
There's no reason why the -D file couldn't have the ID as its first
line. Exim would just not send it when transporting the message. I have
noted this idea.
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