Re: A couple of short router question

["Ambrose Li [EDP]" <acli@mingpaoxpress.com>]

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 12:01:00AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> 	That's odd.  Any file with name starting with a number
> 	(1-9) should be automagically accepted for routing.

What's more odd is, after those two mails failed to route, I
discovered today that I have 21 more in the router queue.

root@monet:/software/zmailer/spool/router[625]# ls -al
total 1324
drwxrwxrwt   2 root     bin          2048 May 14 14:31 .
drwxrwxr-x  11 root     bin          1024 May 14 14:33 ..
-rw-------   1 daemon   system       1493 May 13 09:43 102404policy-947
-rw-------   1 daemon   system       2729 May 13 09:51 102407policy-947
[...]
-rw-------   1 daemon   system       1255 May 14 14:30 102436policy-947
root@monet:/software/zmailer/spool/router[626]#

After a while, I discovered the problem. It has to do with the
length of the number. After I renamed the file names to two digits,
all the messages are routed. Somehow, numbers that are "too large"
are silently not routed.

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