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Re: definition of signature separator



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On Wednesday, January 21 at 09:09 AM, quoth Chris G:
>On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:51:31PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> For one thing, the fact that it's never become a standardized format, 
>> and is instead a mix-and-match set of conventions that every mail 
>> program has their own ideas about (often with disastrous results). I 
>> find that hilarious. And the fact that people continue to refer to 
>> "mbox" as a mailbox format, and continue to use it as if it were a 
>> portable useful format... As far as I can tell, it's good for one 
>> thing: mail that will only ever be accessed by a single piece of 
>> software.
>> 
>No different from other formats such as maildir then!  :-)

How so? Maildir has a definitive definition written and published by 
the guy who designed it in the first place. 
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html (or, more formally, 
http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html)

There's a slight modification, called Maildir++, that is also 
well-defined 
(http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.maildirquota.html).

What makes you say that Maildir is, like mbox, a poorly-defined 
non-standardized format that exists solely as an 
implementation-dependent manifestation that has disastrous 
inter-application results?

~Kyle
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