Re: read/write a mbox file
Re: read/write a mbox file
- Subject: Re: read/write a mbox file
- From: "Ben Kennedy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:55:52 -0500
- Organization: Zygoat Creative Technical Services
Daniel Ström wrote at 5:52 pm (+0100) on 11 3 2006:
>File a bug with Apple, that states that they should make a public API
>for reading and writing mbox files.
>They already have code, for reading and writing mbox files, in
>Mail.app. They could easily make a framework of that code, and make
>it accessible by all developers. If they did, then lots of other
>developers could benefit from this also, to make other tools for
>manipulating mail boxes (eg correcting mails with incorrect charsets,
>wrong dates and other problems).
mbox is a crappy format, not the least of which it precludes random
access by multiple processes, is volatile in that the deletion/
corruption of a single file takes down the entire mail store, etc. Use
maildir instead.
-ben
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