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- From: sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
- Subject: What is the format of a mailbox file?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.203046.25591@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia - Physiology Dept.
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:30:46 GMT
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- What is the format of a unix mailbox file and where can the
- definition be found. ( I didn't see any pointers in the man
- page for 'mail'. )
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- How is the status of new, read, etc. indicated in the file?
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- BTW: the reason for the question is that I need to write a filter
- to split/merge and generally reorganize my mailboxes. If anyone has
- any hints on a good program to do this, I'm listening. And that's why
- I've tacked 'comp.lang.perl' onto the Newsgroups line. I would expect
- someone must have done something like this in Perl, already.
-
- - Steve
-
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- Steven D. Majewski University of Virginia Physiology Dept.
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