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Article #9509SysVR4 spool mail format
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 14:20
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 14:20
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The Content-Type header is described in RFC 1049; I'm not sure where Content-Length originated. The SVR4 usage of Content-Type doesn't look like anything in RFC 1049. RFC 1154 updates RFC 1049, and describes a much more useful encapsulation format. I was able to read this RFC back in '90 a bit before it was published and I was quite pleased with it. Unfortunately it looks like 1154 is being ignored. As far as I can tell both RFC 1049 and 1154 were meant to specify ways of encapsulating different types of messages within an existing RFC 822 message, _not_ to specify a folder format. I hope SVR4 doesn't surprise us with any more unbridled bursts of creativity. If SVR4 /bin/mail no longer quotes lines beginning with "From ", then I'll have to make VM a bit more clever about recognizing message separators. Irritating, but becoming increasingly necessary in the face of things like Deliver script that don't do the quoting either.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,8d4274fb0c6ece55 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-17 15:10:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!bug-vm From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Subject: SysVR4 spool mail format Message-ID: <9107171420.AA00915@wendy-fate.UU.NET> Date: 17 Jul 91 14:20:45 GMT References: <9107171343.AA10309@bach.rtp.dg.com> Sender: bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net Lines: 19