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From: mallsop@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: standard mail file format
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Date: 17 Dec 90 09:39:45 GMT
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It seems there are a multitude of mail file formats floating around the world.
Might I make a humble suggestion:- why not make a standard mail file format?
On UNIX, there is standard format which all mailers use.  Could we, as a pretty
large group of Novell programmers, administrators and users perhaps stick to
one mail format?  Then if we use different mail utilities, they will all still
work.  I'm sure any extras like encryption could be added on top.  With more and
more mail packages being developed and Novell and other MSDOS networks becoming
more popular, it would make life easier for all of us.
My suggestion is to stick to the internet format 'cause we're now starting to
see internet mail being dropped onto the MSDOS networks.

Comments, suggestions....

Cheers,
+Mark

 Mark Allsop                                              Computer Scientist 
 email: mallsop@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au                The Statistical Laboratory 
 Phone: At MacUni: (61 2) 805-8592  / \      Macquarie University, Australia 
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 Mark Allsop                                              Computer Scientist 
 email: mallsop@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au                The Statistical Laboratory 
 Phone: At MacUni: (61 2) 805-8592  / \      Macquarie University, Australia 
 Fax  :          : (61 2) 805-7433   |   This one goes up to 11.....