Re: [exim] Exim Webmin Module.

Hi

I put Webmin on our Exim servers recently, and did a fix myself. I enclose the fixed module, which is Message.pm, which on a default install is in /opt/webmin/exim/Exim

Regards

Max Caines
University of Wolverhampton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces+max.caines=wlv.ac.uk@??? [mailto:exim-
> users-bounces+max.caines=wlv.ac.uk@???] On Behalf Of gpeel
> Sent: 17 January 2012 00:05
> To: Todd Lyons
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Exim Webmin Module.
>
> Hi Todd, thanks for the reply...please see below.
>
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:28:08 -0800, Todd Lyons wrote
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Grant Peel <gpeel@???>
> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > The perl code below has is a file from a Webmin module used to
> interface
> with Exim, show stats manage queue etc. The issue is that the date does
> not
> decode properly. The code is quite old, and I have been hacking at it
> for
> weeks trying to get it to work correctly. I have attempted to contact
> the
> original developer, but suspect his email is not been checked.
> >
> > The code works fine in my limited testing.
>
> Actually, if you were to look at the result(s) in the webmin module, it
> does
> not work even closely. The Times and date are completely whacked...
>
> >
> > > I am posting to this list thinking perhaps some of you may have some
> expierence with the base62 encoding, and hopefully perl!
> > >
> > > If anyone would like to take a shot at it ....
> > >
> > > Example
> > > 1RkkUB-000CAI-Ce        is being decoded a s:         Sat Apr 23
> 16:10:52 2005
> > > which is not correct.
> >
> > Probably because you're passing the whole message id string to the
> > function instead of just the portion which is the datetime. Observe,
> > using your data:
>
> Sorry Todd, I am not passing anything, I did not write the code, a
> fellow
> named Alexander did. I tried to understand it but I think it is way
> above my
> head. I suspect I should take a sceen shot of the results, post that
> along
> with the whole module and see if anyone wants to take a shot at it...
>
> >
> > $ perl test.pl 1RkkUB-000CAI-Ce
> > Starting with 1RkkUB-000CAI-Ce
> > Reduced to 1RkkUB
> > Seconds since Jan 1 1970: 1326235687
> > Tue Jan 10 14:48:07 2012
> > Tue Jan 10 22:48:07 2012
> >
> > You have to strip all the extra cruft after and including the first
> > dash. Only the first 6 characters are significant for time
> > calculation.
> >
> > Experiment with this:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > use strict;
> > use warnings;
> >
> > my $id = shift() || '1Rmrv2-0001v1-T6';
> > print "Starting with $id\n";
> > my $tm;
> >
> > ($tm = $id) =~ s/^([0-9a-zA-Z]{6})-[0-9a-zA-Z]{6}-[0-9a-zA-
> > Z]{2}$/$1/ ? print "Reduced to $tm\n" : die ("Not proper format
> > of message ID"); print "Extracted time portion: $id\n";
> >
> > my $seconds = base62_to_decimal($id);
> > print "Seconds since Jan 1 1970: $seconds\n";
> > print scalar localtime($seconds),"\n";
> > print scalar gmtime($seconds),"\n";
> >
> > ...Todd
> > --
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> > advances is doomed.  --Leo Leporte
> >
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