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Article #92What's the "magic" of a Unix mailbox file?
From: Kris Schneider
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 20:55
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 20:55
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[ Article crossposted from comp.mail ] [ Author was Kris Schneider ] [ Posted on Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:07:26 GMT ] (Haven't heard anything from comp.mail, thought I'd try here...) Howdy, I inadvertently appended a couple of news messages to a mailbox without treating it as a mailbox. Actually, I switched news readers and the new one defaulted to treating save files as "normal". Anyway, when I now invoke mail on the mailbox, the new messages are not listed. However, if I look at the last message listed, the new ones have actually been appended to the end of that message. So, the question is, what magic goes on when a message is saved to a file in mailbox format? Which leads to, how can I modify that mailbox file so that mail recognizes those new messages? Thanks! -- Kris A. Schneider EMail: kris.wbst129@xerox.com XRXMail: Kris:Wbst129:Xerox
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!rutgers!rochester!rocksanne!kris From: kris@xerox.com (Kris Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: What's the "magic" of a Unix mailbox file? Message-ID: <1992Aug4.205537.26710@spectrum.xerox.com> Date: 4 Aug 92 20:55:37 GMT Sender: news@spectrum.xerox.com Reply-To: kris.wbst129@xerox.com Organization: Xerox Lines: 25 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4