Need Smail mail batching format info

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From: Christopher Horn
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 20:54

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I ported UUBatch, a UUCP mail batching package, to Dos to work with Waffle
and have been asked whether it can handle Smail style batched/compressed
mail. I don't know, because I don't know how Smail batches mail.

If Smail uses a format like this...

message length  checksum  address1 address2 ...
    {message length bytes of data}
message length  checksum  address1 address2 ...
    {message length bytes of data}
etc..

then the answer is yes for batched, unsure for compressed batch though.

If anyone could send me info on how smail batches/compresses mail and
what programs it uses to do so, and what they do to handle the batches,
would be appreciated. It should be pretty easy to add support for it.

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 Christopher Horn           |  "We're all caught in a state of decay..."
 chorn@eastwind.mcds.com    |  The East Wind  +1 201 875 7063

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!micro-c!eastwind!chorn
From: chorn@eastwind.mcds.com (Christopher Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Need Smail mail batching format info
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:54:37 EST
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