[pmmail-list] Converting folder to mbox file

[Kenneth Porter]

On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 17:03, J Seder wrote:

> I don't know what "a standard mbox file" is, but this Rexx program
> might help you out:
> 
> 	http://www.syntel.com/pmmarc.html

Thanks.

mbox is the format used by Eudora, Netscape, and before them, Unix mail
spools. It's simply a text file of messages separated by blank lines.
The start of a message is indicated by a line starting with "From "
(note the lack of a colon here). To avoid misinterpreting such a line in
a message body as the start of a new message, such lines are "escaped"
with a ">" character. Newer mbox files avoid the need to escape body
lines by including a Content-length header to indicate where the end of
the body is.


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