Subject: Specifications for the mbx format

From: "Suresh Govindachar" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:34:49 -0700

Hello,

I need the specifications for the mbx format in order
to write a tool (in perl) to convert files from Outlook 
Express' .eml format.  So where can I find the 
specifications for the mbx format?

(If such a tool already exists, where can I get it?)

Thanks,

--Suresh

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From: Mats Dufberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:54:26 +0200 (CEST)

> (If such a tool already exists, where can I get it?)

If you extract the pine distribution you will find FAQ.txt, and there they 
write about tools for mbx.

Mats

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From: Rick Lewis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:07:20 -0700 (MST)

Composer-wrap in PC-Pine is set to the default of 74. 
If I write a message without using carriage returns, all of my lines are 
unjustified and display only up the $ sign.
Using control-j doesn't appear to change this at all (version 4.60.) 
Once I've written the message, I'd like to read it, unjustified.
Even going to the displayed line doesn't help.
Having blank lines between sections also doesn't let control-j justify 
the long lines. 
They do appear normal after they're sent, but it'd be nice to be able to 
easily read the lines to double-check what I wrote!
Unix Pine doesn't seem to work the same way.
Any ideas or workarounds?
--Rick

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From: "Suresh Govindachar" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:04:57 -0700

Mats Dufberg Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 2:54 PM
> > I need the specifications for the mbx format in order to
> > write a tool (in perl) to convert files from Outlook
> If you extract the pine distribution you will find
> FAQ.txt, and there they write about tools for mbx.
> 

Here's what I found:

The only FAQ.txt in the distribution was in the directory:
pine4.60/imap/docs/FAQ.txt.  This files does not mention any
format conversion tools.  It has some discussion (in item
4.5) of how to use the formats given in the file
formats.txt, but but it does not give the specification for
the mbox format.

The web-page:
http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html 
mentions (in 11.17) a tool to convert mh to mbx folders, and
it too does not give the specification for the mbox format.

So I could not find what's mentioned in Mats Dufberg's
response.  

--Suresh

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From: Mats Dufberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:08:56 +0200 (CEST)

> formats.txt, but but it does not give the specification for

The FAQ talks about tmail and dmail,

      + You can deliver directly to the mbx-format INBOX by use of
        the tmail or dmail programs. tmail is for direct invocation
        from sendmail (or whatever MTA program you use); dmail is for
        calls from procmail. Both of these programs have man pages
        which must be read carefully before making this change.

The source for them are in the distribution (pine4.60/imap/src/tmail/ and 
pine4.60/imap/src/dmail/, respectively). They could problably be used as a 
part in your tool.

Mats