[Mimedefang] Writing to an MBOX file

[Tomasz Ostrowski]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Damrose, Mark wrote:

> > I think the From line needs a little bit more info. I ran 
> > into problems with a Mailman archive when I fed it to 
> > Dovecot, my IMAP server, because it didn't like the 
> > abbreviated From line. It thought the whole file was one big 
> > message. Looking at one of my mbox files, it appears that a 
> > datestamp is needed on the end of the line.
> 
> If you're going to write it yourself, you also need to worry 
> about From_ quoting.
> 
> See http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html
> and http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html

Or just pipe INPUTMSG to "procmail -d defang". And you'd not need to
worry about locking, "From " lines, "^From" quoting etc.

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