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
