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Article #267Re: mbox format problem
From: Julian Bradfield
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:28
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:28
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> Thanks for the advice, though. I'll have to read about mmdf. I know > nothing about it. MMDF itself is a mail system which is probably now used hardly anywhere. But its mailbox format is very simple, and has the great advantage that it doesn't require the From-stuffing of mbox. Every message is both preceded and followed by a line of the form ^A^A^A^A (where ^A stands for the character \001, as usual). Of course, it is still theoretically possible to cause chaos by putting those lines into a message with Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit but it hasn't happened to me yet! A sensible format would use content-length, and there is a From_with_content_length or similar variant of mbox, but I don't know how widely supported and robust it is.
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