On 2022-05-19 at 23:13:26 UTC-0400 (Thu, 19 May 2022 23:13:26 -0400)
Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net>
is rumored to have said:
mbox is mbox is mbox. The whole point of standards is that they are
standard.
(Of course, it's also said that the wonderful thing about standards is
that there are so many to choose from.)
That's a fitting response.
In fact, 'mbox' standardization is horrendous. One shouldn't have
trouble using different versions of the same software with existing mbox
files, but you cannot rely on all tools generating or parsing mbox files
to behave correctly with other programs' mbox files.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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