Re: Year 2000.

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:

>
> This is not a configuration issue. It is an issue of what users have to
> set up. The idea is that you can configure exim so that if, for example,
> you, as a user, post to Usenet with the address (for example)
> user.971012@??? as your sender address then that address is
> valid only till 971012, after which it will behave like an unknown local
> part. Users will be wanting to change this regularly, possibly even
> manually every time they post. It seems silly to get them to type what
> are in effect two fixed digits every time. (It also increases the length
> of the local part, though I don't think that is a real issue.) There
> will only be a short period of a few months when the choice between 19
> and 20 makes any sense, since my assumption is that people who use this
> facility will normally set expiry times of a few weeks (maybe months) at
> most.

Well let the MTA add the current vaild two digits if they are missing
but make it work with 4 digits, users can use 2 digits if they
wish and let the MTA add the missing 19 or 20 in the same way that it
adds the domain name when a local MUA only uses an account name.

--Sean