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[GitHub] [incubator-ponymail] sebbASF opened a new issue #522: Enh: add support for mboxrd format

sebbASF opened a new issue #522:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-ponymail/issues/522


   Body lines in mbox files must not start with the characters 'From ' as the string identifies the start of the next message.
   
   Unfortunately there is no single standard for how such lines are handled.
   
   The mboxo format changes 'From ' to '>From '; this is ambiguous when attempting to regenerate the original email.
   
   The mboxrd format additionally changes '>From ' to '>>From ' etc, which is reversible.
   
   Apache HTTPD mod_mbox currently uses mboxo (as far as I am aware).
   The ASF mbox-vm archiver uses mboxrd.
   
   PonyMail currently uses mboxo for generating mbox downloadfiles and defaults to reading mbox files as mboxo.
   
   Whilst this is self-consistent, it is not ideal.
   The code should allow for mboxrd support.


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