[I'm Cc:ing this back to the list since this is still not clear to me.]
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:07:01 -0400, Bennett Todd <bet(_at_)mordor(_dot_)net>
wrote:
1998-09-28-23:46:14 era eriksson:
* Does anything use "mail directory" format natively?
What's "mail directory" format? The two directory-based formats
I've heard of are MH and Maildir. MH is supported by MH, naturally.
Procmail has two directory-oriented formats it knows about. If you
just write to a directory, Procmail will create a file with MSGPREFIX
as its base name in that directory. If you save to directory/. the
message will be named according to MH conventions. I don't believe
there are any other differences between these two than in how the
files are named, and actually I imagine MH format might be implemented
as a special case of the other format, but I haven't checked. My
question is, is this MSGPREFIX format something somebody actually
uses for something?
* Anybody have details on the various orphan mbox variant formats?
Weird. mbox is something I didn't think in terms of "varients" on;
<...>
The next message begins with the next "From " line, unless there's a
Content-Length header that tells an MUA how far to seek forward to
This is exactly what I mean by "variants". Not all MUAs know how to
handle Content-Length and also, there are variations in how the From_
line looks. There are a couple of variants I'm aware of but I think
I've seen some kind of overview over the variations that exist out
there.
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