-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, January 21 at 09:09 AM, quoth Chris G: >On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:51:31PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: >> For one thing, the fact that it's never become a standardized format, >> and is instead a mix-and-match set of conventions that every mail >> program has their own ideas about (often with disastrous results). I >> find that hilarious. And the fact that people continue to refer to >> "mbox" as a mailbox format, and continue to use it as if it were a >> portable useful format... As far as I can tell, it's good for one >> thing: mail that will only ever be accessed by a single piece of >> software. >> >No different from other formats such as maildir then! :-)
How so? Maildir has a definitive definition written and published by the guy who designed it in the first place. http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html (or, more formally, http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html) There's a slight modification, called Maildir++, that is also well-defined (http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.maildirquota.html). What makes you say that Maildir is, like mbox, a poorly-defined non-standardized format that exists solely as an implementation-dependent manifestation that has disastrous inter-application results? ~Kyle - -- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. -- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAkl3Oj8ACgkQBkIOoMqOI15cvgCg5OCaEaQi98VrwyuUEQ1PbbFZ DWIAnRAaPLZVOlkGP6NusK8CCkAmR3Rk =MlsU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
