Converting MBX to MBOX formats

[Brett Worth]

> On 2002.02.16 22:17 Doug Palmer wrote:
> 
> To answer my own question:
> 
> > Would anyone know
> > what
> > the MBX format used by Mahogany is? 
> 
> It's a binary format used by pine and IMAP. It essentially contains the
> straight text mail messages, with a CRLF convention, but surrounded by
> header information containing message length etc. information, to allow
> quick searches and lookups.

Doug,

Are you sure about that?  I use pine and I never see binary in my
mailboxes.  I thought they were good old mbox.  Or are you talking about
PC-PINE?  Maybe that's different.

> It's undocumented as a format. The author informs me that he likes to keep
> it that way so that people access it through the IMAP API.

!!!!!!!YIKES!!!!!!!!!

-- 
Brett

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