From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:00:30 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] Possible problem with maildir ID generation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1240320547-sup-6957@entry> Reformatted excerpts from Mark Alexander's message of 2009-04-16: > Consider two messages that arrive in the same second, but the second > message is smaller than the first. Because the message size makes up > the low seven (decimal) digits of the ID, the second message, even > though it arrived later, will have an ID that is less than the first > message. I think you could be right. Using the size as part of the ID was supposed to differentiate messages with the same timestamp, but it would result in exactly the behavior you describe when polling. I think there's a much simpler scheme we can use that will also fix this. I'll post a patch soon and we can see if it addresses the problem. -- William