Subject: Re: Mail File Format?

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 11:42:20 -0800 (PST)

For a description of folder formats used and understood by Pine, see

	http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/low-level.html#format

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Way Sun wrote:

> Errors-To: [email-masked]
> Sender: [email-masked]
> To: [email-masked]
> From: Way Sun <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Mail File Format?
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 03:20:46 GMT
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Wondering if anyone knows where I can find the description
> of the Mail files (/usr/spool/mail) format? Is it a RFC822 format?
>
> I am curious to find out how PINE marks the each
> mail as read,new, and addressed? I opened the mail file
> with an hex editor and didn't manage to see any difference
> between a read and new mail.
>
> Thanks
>
> Way
>
>
>