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In article <819133969snz@smof.demon.co.uk>, Tim Illingworth
<tim@smof.demon.co.uk> writes

>Is information available on these subjects?

by which you mean the format of mail files...

Not at present. There is no real reason why they should not be
published, except that we do not have this information in a suitable
document, so we will have to extract it from the code where it currently
resides. It is unlikely that we would publish the code - a fair bit of
which is in assembler anyway.

Perhaps people who might be interested would let me know so that I can
judge how much interest there would be. Writing code to unpick these
files is not IMHO for the dilettante, so serious interest only please.

>So: in the interest of Being Prepared:
>Incoming mail: stored where?  what format?
>Outgoing mail: ditto.

both of these live in MSPOOL (where the records are compressed and then
encrypted). The data is actually found using the indexes (which are
BTrees) in MAILBASE. You'd need to add information into several such
indexes...  you may be beginning to see the complexity of what you are
proposing to do.

>Encryption: I caught a reference in another newsgroup to Turnpike
>storing mail in an encrypted form.  Since SmofList needs to read mail
>to process it, is this selectable by user, or is an
>encryption/decrytion system available?

we always encrypt. It won't hold up a major government, but I expect it
will stop people on a network reading mail which they should not.

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