michael lefevre wrote:

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

http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html

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