Thanks, very useful information! I just wondered what happens if there is a "From " string at the beginning of a message body line? :)
- Wolf michael lefevre wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >> > >
