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- From: chorn@eastwind.mcds.com (Christopher Horn)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Need Smail mail batching format info
- Message-ID: <q01oXB1w165w@eastwind.mcds.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:54:37 EST
- Organization: The East Wind +1 201 875 7063
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- I ported UUBatch, a UUCP mail batching package, to Dos to work with Waffle
- and have been asked whether it can handle Smail style batched/compressed
- mail. I don't know, because I don't know how Smail batches mail.
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- If Smail uses a format like this...
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- message length checksum address1 address2 ...
- {message length bytes of data}
- message length checksum address1 address2 ...
- {message length bytes of data}
- etc..
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- then the answer is yes for batched, unsure for compressed batch though.
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- If anyone could send me info on how smail batches/compresses mail and
- what programs it uses to do so, and what they do to handle the batches,
- would be appreciated. It should be pretty easy to add support for it.
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