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authorArkadiusz Miƛkiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>2023-08-29 19:05:44 +0100
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2023-08-29 19:05:44 +0100
commitddd83c1e419a8939d6655fc061de16b271446162 (patch)
tree1bd75c0260272b8bd5657cbbed661de5316492fa /doc/doc-docbook
parent6d9b05ae272ca2122b48451c317d601e449af932 (diff)
Docs: tweak description of message-id. Bug 3020
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-rw-r--r--doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index ffb34e882..7ef79f0ac 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ User filters are run as part of the routing process, described below.
.cindex "Darwin"
.cindex "Cygwin"
.cindex "exim_msgdate"
-Every message handled by Exim is given a &'message id'& which is sixteen
+Every message handled by Exim is given a &'message id'& which is 23
characters long. It is divided into three parts, separated by hyphens, for
example &`16VDhn-000000001bo-D342`&. Each part is a sequence of letters and digits,
normally encoding numbers in base 62. However, in the Darwin operating