Re: E-mail for Pilot

[Alan Shutko <ats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 evoosten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The default SunOs and Solaris mailers use the very old-fasioned
> but highly usefull Unix mailboxes. Even Netscape for Solaris uses
> only small extensions to the mailboxes. They are almost compatible.

Do SunOS and Solaris use the same flavor?  I was pretty sure that SunOS
doesn't use Content-Length, and Solaris does.  Since you can't necessarily
tell the difference between the two formats, you'll get some lossage if
you assume things and you're wrong.  Take a look at
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/content-length.html
for jwz's wonderful rants on the format.

If you could do it reliably, it'd be great for people who use that format,
since they could then sync both ways, but it might be tricky determining
which format to use on a given system.

(I'm not sure this conduit would support Netscape, since it has its index
files, and I'm not sure that it would update them if it sees the mbox file
is newer.  Worth looking into.)


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