Re: Help with the format of NOS email files

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From: Jos den Bekker
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 00:00

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on Fri 18-04-97 19:59 Gary Priest wrote:

>Can anyone tell me the format of email when it is downloaded via NOS (ie.
>before anyother processing by Oasis1 etc.).
>I think it downloads files such as gary.txt and mail.log, but can't see how
>individual emails are separated within gary.txt :(
>
>Does anyone know? Can anyone help?
>I've tried finding out using NOS but NOS just bombs on me these days :(

NOS just downloads the Unix mailbox file. The only clue to separate
one email msg from the other in that file is the `From ' line. It's
stupid, but some Unix things are surprisingly stupid.

If you are looking for code to extract the individual messages, try an
Atari port of elm.

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Date: 1997/04/19
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