exim_msgdate
Utility to convert an exim message-id to a human readable date+time
- Provided by: exim4-base (Version: 4.99.1-1ubuntu1.2)
- Source: exim4
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SYNOPSIS
exim_msgdate [ -u|--unix | --GMT | --z|-Zulu | --UTC |
-l|--local ]
[ --base 36 | --base 62 | --base36 | --base62 | --b36 | --b62 ]
[ --pid ] [ --debug ] [ --localhost_number ]
[ -c c<full path to exim cnfig file> ]
exim-message-id [ | exim-message-id ...]
exim_msgdate --help|--man
DESCRIPTION
exim_msgdate is a tool which converts an exim message-id to a human readable form, usuall just the date+time, but with the --pid option the process id as well.
Message IDs:
Three exim message ID formats are recognized. In each case the 'X's are taken from the base (see below) which depends upon the platform.
- XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XX
- found in the exim logfile,
- EXXXXXX-XXXXXX-XX
- found in the Message-Id header,
- XXXXXX
- just the first six characters of the message id.
OPTIONS
Time Zones and Unix Time
- -u | --unix
- Display time as seconds since 1 Jan 1970, the Unix Epoch.
- --GMT -u|--UTC -z|--zulu
- Display time in GMT/UTC - we assume these are the same. Zulu time is another name for GMT.
- -l | --local
- Display time in the local time-zone.
Do not confuse this with the --localhost_number option.
The default is the local timezone.
User Assistance Options
Specialized Options
- --base n | --base36 | --base62
- The message-id is usually encoded in base-62 (0-9A-Za-z), but on systems
with case-insensitive file systems, such as MacOS and Cygwin, base-36
(0-9A-Z) is used instead. The installation script should have set the
default appropriately, but these options allow the default base to be
overridden.
The default matches "exim"; in this installation it is base-62.
- --pid
- Report the process id as well as the date and time in the message-id.
- --localhost_number n
- If the Exim configuration option localhost_number has been set, the
third and final section of the message-id will include this and the timer
resolution will change (see the Exim Spec. for details).
"Exim_msgdate" reads the Exim config
file (see --C) to find this value, but it can be overridden with this
option.
The value is an integer between 0 and 16, or the value "none" which means there is no localhost_number.
Do not confuse this with the --local option, which displays times in the local timezone.
- --C full path to exim configuration file
- This overrides the usual exim search path. We set "localhost_number" from the exim configfile.
- -dexim_path
- The test harness passes the full path of the "exim" binary, or here the "exim_msgdate" being tested. Not currently used.
SEE ALSO:
Exim spec.txt chapter 4 <https://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-how_exim_receives_and_delivers_mail.html#SECTmessiden>