Author: Phil Pennock Date: To: Brent Jones CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Maildir file names
On 2008-07-06 at 01:54 -0700, Brent Jones wrote: > I have a few Exim servers all running latest Exim.
> However, one server in particular is writing Maildir filenames different
> than the rest.
> For example, I'm used to seeing something like this:
> 1213327320.M661768P70844V0000005BI00764960_0.server.domain.com,S=2076:2,
Are you sure that this later version isn't a rename by the software
which reads the email? (POP3 server, whatever) Exim documents the
filename construction in The Exim Specification, "26.5 Maildir delivery"
(and 26.6 for maildir_tag). The "V..._0" part there is anomalous.
Rephrasing, it should be:
<time.seconds>.M<time.microseconds>P<pid>.<primary_hostname><tag>
where <tag> typically starts with a comma ','.
> This server is only writing these filenames:
> 1215326800.H536521P26074.:2,S
That suggests that primary_hostname is unset, which is weird, since it
should be derived from uname if not explicitly set. Do you have
anything in your config explicitly setting 'primary_hostname = ""' ?