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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:22:55 -0600
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: acme mail
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s/mime and pgp email dislike it when the body is changed.
this isn't something i've used extensively so i don't know how
much of a problem this might be.

would it be better of the raw file remained an exact
representation of the original mail?

perhaps a new file (say "mbox") could keep the email edited enough
to maintain from quoting and anything else require for mbox
compatability.

- erik

On Mon Feb 20 13:53:16 CST 2006, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> > This has been discussed before, but why not just drop the BSD mbox
> > format and use maildir or a similar format?  it will make this and
> > many other problems go away or at the very least much easier to deal
> > with.
> 
> The fixes I mentioned are about 11 lines of code - one for pop3 and
> ten for imap4.  I am not aware of the many other problems that you
> refer to.  I do know that you're not going to implement maildir in 11 lines.
>