POP3 and trailing newlines

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Hi all,

maybe you remember that I posted about Michael having problems with
his Gnus and POP3 and movemail.

What happened was that mails that didn't end with a trailing newline
had the succeeding message appended.

Now we know why it happened, and I've got to say it's all Michael's
fault.  Here's the story.  For some reason Michael didn't like
movemail to produce Babyl format when reading from POP3.  Therefore he
changed it to use mbox format in those cases, too.  And guess what, he
didn't append an empty line to each message.  Now he's changed
movemail to append empty lines to each message, and he's a happy
camper now.

I would still like to see some reference that tells me about the mbox
format.  There was a posting of somebody quoting part of the qmail
documentation, but somehow I think that the mbox format must be much
older than qmail and therefore be described somewhere else.  Just to
be *totally* sure that mbox format requires trailing newlines for each
mail ;-)

kai
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