> BTW, does (will) James support mbox format as the mailbox repository?
James does not support mbox. I don't think there is a plan to support mbox.
I think mbox is nice but not important for James(just my 2 cents).
One could write a value add tool on top of James or any POP3 Server to
convert to and from mbox. In the testing are there is a simple POP3Hammering
class that one could modify to get messages and put into mbox.
Would this tool idea work ?
Harmeet
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From: "Oki DZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: mbox format
> Hi,
>
> BTW, does (will) James support mbox format as the mailbox repository?
> I think the currently available mail tools (mail, mutt, etc) don't fit
> into the service delivered by James. I think it would be great if James
> support mbox (?) format mailbox. So that should anyone choose to stick
> with mbox, then it would be fine; the mail clients that use port 25 as a
> sending point, the mail would be able to be read using the other mail
> clients that are run locally (on Unix machines, to be exact).
>
> Problems may arise for those who use mailbox repository on the database;
> local users (with non-POP mail clients) wouldn't be able to read the
> mail destined for them, and yet, fetchmail wouldn't be working too (I
> believe that fetchmail relies on local mail server to deliver the mail).
> For this, I think we need somekind of tools that know how to POP email,
> but deliver the retrieved mail to local inboxes using local delivery
> systems (deliver?).
>
> Had James supported mbox format, then all those local mail clients could
> be used without any problem. Remote users who use POP, would able to
> read their email too.
>
> This doesn't mean that I'd like to personally use mbox format. I just
> think that somebody out there might need it.
>
> Oki
>
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