Re: read/write a mbox file
Re: read/write a mbox file
- Subject: Re: read/write a mbox file
- From: Sandeep Chayapathi <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:15:52 -0500
Hi all,
I have filed a bug with Apple, regarding this.
https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/7/wo/
wOsJtXamIRls3JTT6gdhgg/3.33.26.0.3
Thanks to Mr Strom.
- Sandeep
On Mar 11, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Daniel Ström wrote:
Hi!
I didn't expect to make simultaneous access to an mbox from two or
more applications.
However Mail.app uses the mbox format, and I have lots of mail with
anomalities in the, that would be nice to correct.
It's okay to quit Mail.app before running such a utility.
It's not possible to choose maildir format, since that's what
Mail.app does not use. I like using Mail.app, but I would also like
to get rid of some anomalities in certain mails. I have other
programming project, and don't really have the time to find out
everything about the mbox format. Therefore it would be nice to
have a framework to use, or maybe be able to write a plugin to
Mail.app that can do what I want.
Then there could be another plugin to make backup archives of ones
mail. That would solve mr Chayapathis problem as well.
Best regards
Daniel Strom
11 mar 2006 kl. 17.55 skrev Ben Kennedy:
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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