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Subject: Re: mbox format
From: Carlo Rubini <osb at bttb dot net dot bd>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 06:09:54 +0600
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:31:44 -0700

osb at bttb dot net dot bd wrote:

 can anybody tell me the format (XML?) and encoding of .mbox files?

Mars Saxman <mars at realsoftware dot com> wrote:

Mbox format is an old pseudo-standard, consisting of a bunch of email
messages concatenated together. That's really all there is to it. The format
predates XML by at least a couple of decades, and nobody ever got around to
writing an RFC.

Here's some documentation about mbox and its variations:
<http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html>

Thanks. How funny I thought the mbox thing was a fresh invention...

 > At present I read mboxes from Mail as textInputStream, but what about
 Entourage (which I dont have)? If format and encoding are the same,
 then the matter becomes rather simple.

I'd be surprised if Entourage used anything nearly so standard as an mbox
file; its data is almost certainly stored in some custom database whose
format is known only to Microsoft.

from a Mac magazine, I read that Entourage (Office v.X & 2004) support mbox thru drag&dropping...

Thanks also to David for answering,
--
Carlo
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