In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolf Eichler wrote:
> Is there no standards doc somewhere?

it's not a defined standard, it was just the common format of Berkeley
*nix systems.  if you want to know how to interpret it, you can probably
get what you need from the mbox man page.  a search turns up:
http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html

basically it's just a text file. each message starts with "From " at the
beginning of a line, and ends with a blank line.  there are a couple of
variants, one of which requires a Content-Length header which specifies
the message body size.

> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>> Wolf Eichler wrote:
>> 
>>> Where can I find a definition of the Berkeley mail file format? 
>> 
>> 
>> Read back in this newsgroup. It's usually called "mbox" and used my 
>> Mozilla to store mail.
>> 
>> 
> 


-- 
michael

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