Re: [exim] seemingly always-zero part in queue-ids

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Author: Mike Kennedy
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To: Moritz Wilhelmy
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] seemingly always-zero part in queue-ids
>From the Exim Documentation:

"After the first hyphen, the next six characters are the id of the process
that received the message."

The process ID of the exim process that received the mail would have to be
numbered at least (62^3 = ) 238328 for that 4th character alone to be
nonzero!

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Moritz Wilhelmy <ml+exim@???> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have observed that on multiple machines where I've seen exim running,
> the queue-IDs usually contain three zeroes:
>
> 1S5ff6-000FQ0-Kb
> 1S5fkq-000N3Y-8x
> 1S5fko-0002KT-P2
>       ^^^

>
> What's the purpose of these zeroes? I.e. why are they even here? Is this
> an architectural/OS specific thing? (I expect most machines running exim
> to be Linuxes, but FreeBSD also has three zeroes here..)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>        Moritz

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