> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
Which is my point, they don't have to separate conjoined messages they are already separate when they arrive. After twenty years one of the first open source projects still hasn't come up with a better method of storing messages that does not involve a stupid hack. There is a reason why you design thing properly from the start, and don't make code hacks. Neither of those things was done, and they still haven't fixed the issue on which the stupid hack was based. The stupid hack became the standard. > > 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. If it was to actually do any of the scenerios we went over, yes it would not be able to do it 100%. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
