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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:36:47 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:51:49 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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-Hidious mailbox format very common on unix machines.
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-The format is basically one email message concatenated one after another with a line that starts with "From " seperating them.
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-This of course means that every message that contains the text "From " at the beginning of a line must be altered. Sigh.
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-Also mboxes get very slow to parse when they start getting large. many programs (such as pine(1)) read the entire
mbox into memory to parse it. if sizeof(mbox)>sizeof(memory) you're going to be there a while.
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-A much nicer format is MailDir
.
+Describe [
mbox] here
.
