[Gllug] Mailbox compacting

[Martin A. Brooks]

t.clarke wrote:
> I am not sure whether this is remotely relevant or helpful as I am not sure
> about 'mailbox' format!    Our emails (on a SCO box) are held in  what I think
> is mbox format of  4 delimiting binary ones at the start and end of each email.
> We archive them away in one or more largish files and use a C program to create
> an 'index' file of each email by sender and subject line.  The index file
> contains pointers to each email with the 'archive file' that can be used by
> another C program to extract the email by simply seeking to the first pointer
> and reading data of length of the 2nd 'pointer'.
>   


It worries me that you use the word "simply" in that explanation. :)
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