Brenda Bell writes:
While qmail uses a pid, sounds like it's simply a byproduct of the
implementation and a readily available vehicle rather than a
Sounds like the only requirement is that the middle field be "something
that doesn't repeat within one second on a single machine".
That's not quite the point. The original issue is whether you want to start
using time.inode.hostname in this day and age. The original answer was no,
because you will collide with time.pid.hostname. WV dismisses this,
claiming that nobody's using time.pid.hostname. Well, that's clearly not
true. Plenty of stuff uses time.pid.hostname.
This isn't the first time WV changed Postfix in a way that broke stuff that
worked before.