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How is mbox a broken format? It's a bad idea to use it in a multi-writer environment, and it's horrible because there are competing versions of it. But for plai
by groby_b 13y ago
How is mbox a broken format? It's a bad idea to use it in a multi-writer environment, and it's horrible because there are competing versions of it. But for plain storage, I thought it worked quite well.
What am I missing?
- chalst 13y agoAny line following a blank line and beginning with the four characters "From" marks the start of a new message. The BSD way of handling such lines in the body of a message was to prefix them with ">", which is a non-reversible workaround and is in the uuencode target charset. Prefixing every line in the message body with a tab character would allow reversing and not interfere with uuencode/base64&c.
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