On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > There are two UNIX mailbox formats. Which one thats used depends on your > sendmail version/configuration. > > Format 1. "^From " based. > > >From Whoever@somewhere date > mail data. Any line beginning with "From " is escaped to ">From ". i've scanned through /var/spool/mail/root and they're all in the >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] DDD MMM DD HH:MM:SS YYYY format, with a blank line before that to separate mails. If i'm playing round with user's mailboxes, do i need to somehow lock them? i'll be reading each mail out of the spool and checking it's date, if it's after a set date it gets put into a new spool, otherwise it gets left in the original spool.
