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Author: Sébastien BRUCHET
Date:  
To: guilde
New-Topics: Re: Fromat courriel
Subject: Mail from
MESSAGE FORMAT
     A message encoded in mbox format begins with a 
From_  line,
     continues  with a series of non-From_ lines, and
ends with a
     blank line.  A From_ line means any line  that 
begins  with
     the characters F, r, o, m, space:


          From god@??? Sat Jan  3 01:05:34
1996
          Return-Path: <god@???>
          Delivered-To: djb@???
          Date: 3 Jan 1996 01:05:34 -0000
          From: God <god@???>
          To: djb@??? (D. J.
Bernstein)


          How's that mail system project coming along?



     The final line is a completely  blank  line  (no 
spaces  or
     tabs).  Notice that blank lines may also appear
elsewhere in
     the message.


     The  From_  line  always  looks  like  From 
envsender  date
     moreinfo.  envsender is one word, without spaces
or tabs; it
     is usually the envelope sender of the message. 
date is  the
     delivery date of the message.  It always contains
exactly 24
     characters in asctime format.  moreinfo is
optional; it  may
     contain arbitrary information.


     Between the From_ line and the blank line is  a 
message  in
     RFC  822 format, as described in qmail-header(5),
subject to
     >From quoting as described below.


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