25 Jul
2002
25 Jul
'02
4:30 p.m.
"JRM" == Jason R Mastaler <jason@mastaler.com> writes:
JRM> I'm confused. Currently, MM has a plain text file containing
JRM> the message headers/body and a marshal containing the
JRM> metadata.
JRM> Are you saying that previously, the metadata was contained in
JRM> the text file, and the message headers/body in a pickle?"Current" is a relative term. :)
Sticking to MM2.1, when the message first comes in from the MTA, it's dumped into qfiles/in as a pickle file of the metadata and a plaintext message file (header + body). When the incoming qrunner first parses it, and if the message ever gets re-queued (regardless of target queue directory), it will (by default) write it out again as a metadata pickle file and a pickle file of the parsed message object tree.
-Barry