Subject: Re: The -Y switch

From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:50:53 +0200

> What is the "traditional Berkeley mailbox format"?

I've been working on a specification in 
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~czyborra/registrations/

> My mailfolders have the Contents-Length: field.

They may stem from the mailers that send mail to you and are likely
ignored by your software. 

SunOS4 uses the traditional Berkeley Mail format, i.e. you cannot have a
paragraph starting with "From " in the contents. 

SunOS5 uses the AT&T/SVR4 mailx format with Content-Length which allows
arbitrary data in the message but is not backwards compatible with
traditional tools.