[pmmail-list] Combining Installations ?

[Charles Sardeson]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:47:18 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:

>The file name PMMail generates is actually a number: it is the time the
>message was pulled from the mail server, in number of seconds since
>1/1/1970, expressed as a 6-digit number in base 36, with one additional
>digit added to allow for multiple messages in the same second.  More than
>you needed to know, yes?

Actually, that's *exactly* what I wanted to know!

>
>Thus, if you were never running two machines at the exact same time, it is
>very unlikely you will have any conflicts, but it isn't impossible.

Think I'm savfe there...
>
>Fortunately, PMMail doesn't care what the file name is, as long as it ends
>in .MSG.  If you do find a conflict, just rename one of them by changing
>the last digit, or assigning some completely different name.

Valuable info.
>
>I don't know where you got .mbx, however.  To my knowledge, PMMail has
>never used .mbx files.

Thin air - needed a node for my example, and mailbox seemed
appropriate.

Thanks,

Chuck

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