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

[E. R. Vaughan]

You might also find this interesting (qmail author's remarks on RFC822)
http://cr.yp.to/immhf.html

There are more interesting docs here http://cr.yp.to/mail.html

FWIW I agree with him and use qmail on my servers. The Postfix author had a
flame war once with him about all this, I am sure that there are divided
opinions on the list, it's a vim/emacs kind of thing IMO, although I am sure
there are people that disagree with that statement :)

Emil



----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Ball" <chris at void.printf.net>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Unix Mailbox format / Exchange POP3 connector etc.


Jake Jellinek <jj at positive-internet.com> writes:

> Can anyone help me find some sort of definition of the
> accepted/standard format of a Unix Mailbox? I've been through RFCs,
> FYIs, STDs, BCPs and various other IETF drafts etc as well as google
> searches, and so far not been very successful

It's called 'BSD mbox' format, but it's de facto rather than de jure,
and - though there's some outline in RFC 976 - it's not formally
specified.  There's a jwz rant on Content-Length which also answers your
question and talks about the format, at:

  http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html

HTH,

- Chris.
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