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.
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> 


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