On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 edouard.boucher@??? wrote:
> I am about to write a perl script for exim 3.35 (if it could work for further
> version to, it would be great) that parse the mainlog file for deliveries.
what is your problem with exigrep ?
> Where can i find information about the message-id format (how to match it)
> is [0-9a-zA-Z}]{6}-[0-9a-zA-Z}]{6}-[0-9a-zA-Z}]{2} just it ?
> (i know it is in the exim book but i dont have it)
it's pretty freely fluxing. exim generates those kinds of ids you are
referring to, but other things generate different ids in different
formats.
> is the email address after the <= garanted to be a RFC822 addr ?
> (is it even in a more restricfull format ?
> for exemple no "edouard boucher <edouard.boucher@???>"
> but just "edouard.boucher@???")
it's "local_part@domain", nothing more.
i'd look at the supplementary exim utilites (exigrep, exiqsumm,
eximstats).
