On 8/12/2004 5:18 PM, Tony Hansen wrote: > The information about the mbox format being anecdotally defined is > incorrect. The mbox format has traditionally been documented in the > binmail(1) or mail.local(8) man pages (BSD UNIX derivatives) or mail(1) > man page (UNIX System 3/5/III/V derivatives). I checked each of those and none of them seem to adequately describe the message or database format. > The most complete description of an mbox format can be seen in the man > page from any UNIX System Vr4 derived system, such as Solaris. > > The description found in http://qmail.org./man/man5/mbox.html, referred > to at the end of Appendix A, does cover these variations fairly > succinctly. However Appendix A doesn't cover the variations properly. Do you have a specific URL to a specific man page that you think would be appropriate and authoritative? I spent a while looking (see also http://makeashorterlink.com/?X61D16909 for example), and couldn't find anything that seemed to be authoritative enough to reference. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf