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- From: Simon Brown <simes@amdev.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: EMAIL Formats
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 16:31:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <9602111631.AA00fkt@amdev.demon.co.uk>
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- From the frantic fingers of David Evans:
-
- > I have been trying to figure out a correct method of splitting up a persons
- > email box into differant files. Obviously various email programs perform this
- > function, but I can't seem to figure it out (or see it documented).
- >
- > Basically, the standard email box for a user contains each letter appended to
- > the other. The format of a mail item appears to consist of basically the
- > "header" followed by the text of the item. The second "letter" in a persons
- > mailbox follows the last letters text and begins with another "header".
- >
- > I have seen some headers have a "byte" count, but its not consistant. I
- > suspect that possibly the message ID has the byte count encrypted but I can't
- > seem to find docs on how to decrypt it if I am correct. Anyone have any
- > ideas?
-
- For UUCP mailboxes, the first line of the header normally begins with the
- string "From ". The next unindented line will be a message header of the
- type "<name>: <data>". In addition, at the end of each message will be a
- blank line. This is, as far as I know, the only sure-fire way of
- determining where messages begin and end, as not all messages contain size
- information and even if they do it isn't always correct.
-
- The message-ID has nothing to do with the size, BTW - it's just a unique
- string.
-
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- Simon Brown <simes@amdev.demon.co.uk> // Software producer to the gentry.
- http://uptown.turnpike.net/S/simes/ \X/ Sage Master of the Inner Mystery.
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