On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:47:00PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > I know for a fact that my isp has the messages sent to my address, > already separate. I don't actually have to re-separate them, they are > already separate and can be downloaded individually. It is really > simple to keep messages and their headers delimited once I download > them.
You really don't know what you are talking about. Now you are talking about mail transfer, which at some level (maybe or maybe not the level you mention above) involves SMTP (originally defined in Postel's RFC 821), which does unambiguously separate the messages. On a BSD-type system, the message then goes to an MDA, which mungs any From 's if necessary, and creates or appends the message to an mbox file. At that point their can be more than one email in a file. > well intentioned they are. Specifically, it would be impossible to be > 100% accurate in separating messages if the reciever had to do it, and > had to munge the >from itself. No, it is 100%. What you just described ignores SMTP. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
