Subject: Re: Mailbox format for /usr/spool/mail/????????

From: [email-masked] (Cyrille Lefevre)
Date: 19 Apr 1995 17:55:54 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Paul Robinson) writes:

& On a unix system, I believe the standard mailbox name for each user is as 
& specified above, with ? replaced by the user's login name.  I'd like to 
& know if there is a standard document describing how those mailbox files 
& are defined so I can read Unix mailboxes on a PC.  

	try the pop protocol, I think pine can use this protocol.

	pop may be reached at ftp://ftp.cc.berkeley.edu/pub/pop/...

	if you can't use pop, get it, you'll find much of your
	answers in its C source code.
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From: [email-masked] (Paul Robinson)
Date: 19 Apr 1995 13:39:22 GMT

On a unix system, I believe the standard mailbox name for each user is as 
specified above, with ? replaced by the user's login name.  I'd like to 
know if there is a standard document describing how those mailbox files 
are defined so I can read Unix mailboxes on a PC.  

I like the Pine mailer but I must use something akin to UUCP in order to 
be able to read and reply to mail off-line.  All of the mailers I've 
found either want to run under windows, will not simply exit to a batch 
file or issue a subtask call to a mail transporter program properly, or 
will not operate without a network connection.  I would probably use 
PC-Pine if I could get it to work under this scheme.

This is what I want to run, so any suggestions on changing what I want to 
do will be respected, but cheerfully ignored unless they cost nothing and 
are an order of magnitude easier than what I want to do.

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From: Vladimir Solnicky <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:01:17 +0200 (METDST)

> PC-Pine if I could get it to work under this scheme.

I think Pegasus mail can do what you want (if you realy want to read mail
off-line using uucp---on my friend's company use this combination). If you
only want to use PC and have a direct connection to the Internet, IMAP and
some version of PC-PINE would be probably much better. 

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From: [email-masked] (A. P. Harris)
Date: 22 Apr 1995 16:10:47 -0500

[Paul Robinson <[email-masked]>]
>are defined so I can read Unix mailboxes on a PC.  

The standard mailbox format is pretty simple.  It's named as you
described, /usr/spool/mail/apharris in my case.  Messages are separated
by a line like

>From [email-masked] Mon Feb  6 03:04:25 CST 1995

There should be a blank line before the 'From ' line.
Anyhow, it's the 'From ' which is critical, *not* 'From:'.

I'm not sure if there's an rfc describing mailbox formats.  
You might try some unix mail newsgroups for more info, or
the unix mail faqs.

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