From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 11 13:43:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10192 for current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10182 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA04764; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:40:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604112040.NAA04764@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:40:27 -0700 (MST) Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9604111512.AA14847@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 11, 96 11:12:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.