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From: 9531sons@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Jamie Sonsini)
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Subject: Re: standard mail file format
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Date: 17 Dec 90 16:46:25 GMT
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In article <905@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> mallsop@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop) writes:


>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 - The Unix (or Internet) mail format is actually defined as RFC822
format (I think I have the number correct) and is used by many (most?) mail
systems around the world.  Certainly prompting vendors of e'mail for
Novell networks to adhere to these international standards would be a
step in the right direction.

					Jamie Sonsini
					UC Santa Barbara