Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:40:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? Message-ID: <199604112040.NAA04764@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9604111512.AA14847@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 11, 96 11:12:04 am
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> Only if you have broken mailbox-parsing software. > > `Content-Length' is bogus. The indication of mailbox message > boundaries should be out-of-band. This is one of the things that > MMDF, MH, and AMS all got right; in MMDF, messages are delimited by > ^A^A^A^A, and in the other two, messages are kept in separate files. > > It might be nice for mail.local to be able to deliver to MMDF-style > mailboxes. There are a number of user agents out there (e.g., VM > 5.95) which are capable of dealing with this format. Perhaps an > AMS-style delivery mechanism would be useful as well. If it weren't for NFS mounts, I'd suggest devising a common mail API and making all mail programs use it. The MIME library would be perfect for this if it weren't for the draconian usage terms. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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