[pmmail-list] PMMail and The Bat!
Tim Roberts
pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:33:57 -0800
KTS wrote:
>Tuesday January 20 2004 11:47, Tim Roberts wrote to All:
>
>
> TR> Many other programs use the Unix scheme, where all of the messages
> TR> in
> TR> a folder are stored together in a plain-text, human-readable file.
>
>There is no "Unix scheme". Sendmail style mailbox is a single file.
>Qmail style Maildir has a separate file for each message. Just some
>examples.
>
You're being argumentative. For 25 years, every Unix system stored
e-mail as one file per user, with messages separated by "From xxx@yyy"
lines. That's what POP and IMAP servers expect. That format IS called
a Unix mailbox, and it is silly of you to argue otherwise.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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