On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:21:08PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:08:56PM -0500: > > > > % Is mbox the same as Unix format? > > > > Yes, mbox is the same mailbox format that you know from years and years > > ago. Each message is delimited by ^From_ (a newline, "From", and a > > Well, technically, I don't think UNIX has a mail format. UNIX doesn't > do mail. > > *SENDMAIL* has a mail format, and it's mbox. Other common UNIX > utilities recognize this format, but UNIX itself doesn't do mail.
well, if you want to be pickey, sendmail doesn't deal with mailboxes either. the MDA does, though which defined the format for the mbox, I'm not sure. I would believe it's a unix standard, part of the unix operating system, but can't back that up with facts. the mbox manpage does mention this, under history: The mbox format occured in Version 6 AT&T Unix. A variant of this format was documented in RFC 976. :) -- Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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