On 29 September 1998, era eriksson <era(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> wrote:
[...]
Not all MUAs know how to handle Content-Length and also, there are
variations in how the From_ line looks.
[...]
"Content-Length:" is a MIME header, so MUAs that are not
MIME-compliant don't have much use for it. Moreover, it should only
be added by the final MTA, or by the recipient's MUA. The reason
is some gateways out there love to get messy, and do things like
removing trailing blanks and compressing or expanding tabs. So the
"Content-Length:" might be wrong when the message is delivered, and that
may confuse the MIME-_aware_ MUAs that (naively :-)) use it as a hint
for parsing mbox mailboxes into messages.
On 29 September 1998, era eriksson <era(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 02:45:05 +0300, Liviu Daia
<daia(_at_)stoilow(_dot_)imar(_dot_)ro>
wrote:
[...]
> : MBX format
> AFAIK, Qmail doesn't handle MBX mailboxes.
Then what does? Anybody? (Did I make up this format? :-)
Personally, I never heard about MBX, so I can't be of any use here.
> unique, even across different machines. Maildir is the
> only mail folder format that doesn't require locking.
I changed this to read "file-oriented mail folder format" in the light
of David Tamkin's comments (which also correspond to my understanding
of these things). (Yes, there are some things which work badly if you
don't update MH's sequences, but that's IMHO kind of outside the scope
of what you need to know in order to use it with Procmail. I'll add a
comment about how some people prefer to deliver via rcvstore(1).)
On a second thought, MH also needs locking when the status flags of
the messages are updated (although I don't know whether MH bothers to
do that or not). But, sure enough, this too is relevant only for MUAs
accessing MH mailboxes concurrently, procmail itself doesn't need to
care about that.
> On a related topic, please note that Mutt can natively read and
> write both mbox, MMDF, MH and Maildir mailboxes.
Hmmm. I'm not sure I want to turn this into a listing of features of
MUAs (although I agree that might be a good resource to have as well).
[...]
Well, you asked what programs support the various formats. Mutt
supports the four formats above, and it can also convert mailboxes from
one format to another.
Regards,
Liviu
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