okay...nevermind. it just adds a > to the start of the line then strips it when it's displayed...apparently not when replying though.
okay...thanks, -Mark ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mark Kahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:25:47 -0400 >okay...so what happens when I send THIS email? > >>From <me> > >??? is the < converted to < or something? > >and I've already tried deleting the UID...no effect. what is the uid anyway? is it >an index file? (email 1 starts on line 1, email 2 starts on line 50, etc)? > >-Mark > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 19:01:36 -0400 > >> >>>I'm using imail 6.x and I need to recover as many emails as possible from >>>a corrupted file. IMail won't read the file and every time I try to make >>>it it just locks the mailbox. So I have to write a program to parse the >>>mbx files, extract any good emails and re-create the mbx file. The >>>problem I'm running into is that there doesn't seem to be any seperator >>>between emails. it just starts a new line with: From >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. does anyone know how imail detects new emails? >> >>You found it. >> >>IMail uses a variation of the standard Unix mailbox format. The identifier >>for the start of a new E-mail is the presence of "From <" at the beginning >>of a new line. >> >>So, you program can do the following: >> >> o Read a line from the .mbx file >> o If it is "From <", start a new E-mail >> o Otherwise, process it as a line of the current E-mail >> o Repeat >> >> >> -Scott >>--- >>Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for >>IMail. http://www.declude.com >> >>--- >>[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] >> >> >>Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >>to be removed from this list. >> >>An Archive of this list is available at: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> >>Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >>questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > >Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
