"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gjermund S=8F8rseth?=" <gjermund(_at_)nextel(_dot_)no> writes:
> >1) Procmail delivers mail to maildirs using filesnames like
> > _WSB,5RtO4.hostname. How is the first part derived - and why is
> > it different from time.pid.hostname as described in the qmail
> > documentation..?
>
> The format is
> an underbar
> the pid, base64 encoded left to right
> one of the set .,+:%@
> the time, base64 encoded left to right
> a period
> the hostname, or at least the beginning of it
Regarding the base64 encodings - one of the characters that can
appear in a base64 encoding is the slash (/), which cannot be
used in a unix filename. Does procmail check for this...?
Procmail uses its own base64 encoding for these strings -- the characters
are selected from the set A-Z, a-z, 0-9, '-', and '_'.
Philip Guenther