įrom MAILER-DAEMON Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 From: Author To: Recipient Subject: Sample message 1 This is the body. The transformation is then always reversible.
The mboxrd format solves this by converting From to >From and converting >From to >From , etc. When subsequently read by the mail software, the leading > is erroneously removed. If a line already contained >From at the beginning (such as in a quotation), it is unchanged when written. In the mboxo format, this can lead to corruption of the message. In the mboxo format, such lines have irreversible ambiguity. To avoid misinterpreting a " From " string at the beginning of the line in the email body as the beginning of a new email, some systems "From-munge" the message, typically by prepending a greater-than sign: If a " From " string occurs at the beginning of a line in either the header or the body of a message (a mail standard violation for the former, but not for the latter), the email message must be modified before the message is stored in an mbox mailbox file or the line will be taken as a message boundary. Mboxo and mboxrd locate the message start by scanning for From lines that are found before the email message headers. Applications that newly create messages and store them in mbox database files will likely use this approach to detach message content from database storage format. Therefore, checksums remain constant, a necessary precondition for supporting S/MIME and Pretty Good Privacy. Using MIME and choosing a content-transfer-encoding that quotes "From_" lines in a standard-compliant fashion ensures that message content doesn't need to be changed, but only their MIME representation. as a rationalization of mboxo and subsequently adopted by some Unix mail tools including qmail.Īll these variants have the problem that the content of the message sometimes must be modified to remove ambiguities, as shown below, so that applications have to know which quoting rule has been used to perform the correct reversion, which turned out to be impractical. mboxrd was invented by Rahul Dhesi et al. mboxcl and mboxcl2 originated from the file format used by Unix System V Release 4 mail tools.
Each originated from a different version of Unix. Bernstein, Rahul Dhesi, and others in 1996. The naming scheme was developed by Daniel J. Over the years, four popular but incompatible variants arose: mboxo, mboxrd, mboxcl, and mboxcl2. The mbox format uses a single blank line followed by the string 'From ' (with a space) to delimit messages this can create ambiguities if a message contains the same sequence in the message text. ( March 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details. This section may be too technical for most readers to understand. The maildir mailbox format is often cited as an alternative to the mbox format for networked email storage systems. Other systems, such as Microsoft Exchange Server and the Cyrus IMAP server, store mailboxes in centralized databases managed by the mail system and not directly accessible by individual users. Ī format similar to mbox is the MH Message Handling System. RFC 4155 defines that a UTC timestamp follows after another separating space character. Each message starts with the four characters "From" followed by a space (the so-called "From_ line") and the sender's email address. It was first implemented in Fifth Edition Unix.Īll messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file. Mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of email messages. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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