On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/7/25 12:44 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > > I have read your emails twice and I am not sure what you are asking > > about. Are you interested in the format on the network? or in a file? > > > > The end goal is the structure of the file created and saved by > SeaMonkey. Fine details of which are logically answered in a SeaMonkey > forum.
According to Galen's third link, the one describing the MBOX format, there are several variants, labelled there as: MBOXO MBOXRD MBOXCL MBOXCL2 Guessing, I'd suggest SeaMonkey is probably using one of those. >From long-ago memory, when I was parsing MBOX files, the main structure is that multiple messages are stored in one file. The individual messages are distinguished by a line starting: From<space>. This creates a complication if a message contains a line that also starts with those characters, but doesn't actually start a new message. I presume (without checking) that the variants handle this complication differently. -- Russell Senior [email protected]
