I wonder if anyone has some insight here and could enlighten me:
I would like to know of a _Linux_ mailer/mailing system which saves
received mails in the "raw" format it is downloaded, i.e.  with the RFCs-
induced first line of "+OK [plus some chars or none]" as a start
marker of a mail item, and a line with a single dot only as end marker.

The _earlier_ Net$crape-Mail (under the win$.9x) still did this.
(I have no means to look at later versions.)

Among the - few! - Linux mailers I had the time/leisure to set up,
there was none which would not re-format the raw download stream
storage with a "From [plus address]" text as the start-line and
suppressing the dot-line EOM[ail] marker (and consequentially,
corrupting any mail body line starting with "From ".)

The quest is for a Linux mailer which would allow copy/transfer back-and-
forth with the DOS mailers which all store downloaded mail - if as single
file per item or a file-"folder" of consecutive items - in the raw
format received; and to access older archives from such DOS mailers with
an Linux mailer able to read such.

(BTW, the LF-only linebreak in *nix files vs. the CR-LF in the
DOS/Win$ world is the lesser issue in this context. It seems that some
Linux mailers digest the Net-standard CR-LF without hickups.)

// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-11-05
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