[Gllug] Unix Mailbox format / Exchange POP3 connector etc.

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Jellinek [mailto:jj at positive-internet.com]
> 
> Anyway, that side of it I'm happy to deal with, I just was 
> suprised to find that there is no defined standard for a
> "Unix" mailbox, but then perhaps there shouldn't need 
> to be.

I am a bit of a stickler for standards and if there is no defined standard
then people can and will do what they want (some will do what they want
anyway). If there is no standard then its probably about time someone wrote
one to avoid confusion and misinterpretation of what people think is a
standard Unix mailbox. Forgive me if I am jumping in ignorantly but I deal
with problems every day where a defined standard would have prevented it in
the first place. I am not saying that standards are the be all and end all,
they are not and need to be as fluid as the environment they where made for
and in the IT world that's pretty damned runny. 

Harry 


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