On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 06:40:34AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
I didn't know that. I see on the man page mutt can save as mbox, MMDF, MH or
Maildir using the -m flag. I couldn't see any docs about saving in the
different mbox formats, which I understand from
https://docs.aspose.com/email/net/email-storage-formats/ to be as follows:
Mutt attempts to read all variants of mbox, but only writes one.
* MBOXCL:
Introduced by the “Classic” MBOX variant where each “From " line is
quoted with an ffrom string.
* MBOXCL2:
A variation of MBOXCL where “From " lines are doubled to distinguish
them.
What? No. Those two names normally have meanings different from that,
and I've never seen or heard of any variant of mbox that does what's
described above. What's "an ffrom string" anyway?
I read that web page, found no information beyond those two bullet
points, and no search function. Where did they get that? That's almost
certainly confused, nonsense.
In the usual meanings of the names mboxcl and mboxcl2, "cl" stands for
content length. Both variants use the non-standard header
Content-Length:. Mboxcl also does ">From " escaping of message lines;
mboxcl2 does not. Mutt writes this mboxcl2.
Please read this:
<http://www.panix.com/~kh/mailstorage/>
