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- From: john.blyth@edserv.monash.edu.au (John Blyth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: EMAIL Formats
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 09:55:47
- Organization: Monash University
- Message-ID: <19960215.7BD06C8.94C7@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>
- References: <19960210.7C1DE70.A64A@ccubb.com> <4fo7ps$2g@news.ox.ac.uk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: control.edserv.monash.edu.au
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- In article <4fo7ps$2g@news.ox.ac.uk> Nick Christie wrote:
-
- >devans@ccubb.com (David Evans) wrote:
- >>Basically, the standard email box for a user contains each letter appended to
- >>the other.
-
- (stuff deleted)
-
- >If anybody knows a better rule, I'd very interested in hearing about it.
-
- It depends if you are trying to parse the file as part of a POP transport,
- in which case the headers are delineated very clearly ( see RFC 821, RFC
- 822 & RFC 1225) or you want to construct a mail reader that takes an
- existing uucp / unix formatted mailbox. In any case the RFC's are a help.
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