/usr/spool/mail files

From: George Gallen <ggallen_at_slackinc.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 09:13:46 -0500

How does the mail program know the end of one piece of mail and the
beginning
of the next?

Does it look for "Received from:" to signal the start? what if that were
imbedded in
the message?

Or is there a byte count internal to the message ID?

Does anyone know where I could get source to a mail display program that
would
show how it parses the /usr/spool/mail files? I'm attempting to write a
front end
mail display program to integrate with our other programming (in PICK).
I'm not
looking for 3rd party, as I will be needing very customized integration.

Thanx
George Gallen
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
Received on Tue Nov 18 1997 - 15:34:20 NZDT

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