From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: mbox support in other software
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:59:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210916135921.huvkda6sqnzi7ohs@meerkat.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210916073437.GA18469@dcvr>
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 07:34:37AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Since I've written the lei-mail-formats manpage, I've been
> curious what other software differentiates between the various
> mbox formats and supports several/all of them?
>
> AFAIK, none of the Perl Mail::* stuff does, nor does Email::Folder
> (AFAIK abandoned). I haven't looked at libraries for Python nor
> other languages...
Python only does mboxo. I've switched to using git-mailsplit in b4 because of
various quirks of interaction between mboxrd and mboxo.
> git supports mboxo and mboxrd, nowadays; but it seems like most
> other software only know how to deal with one of the mbox family
> (and mixing software on the same mbox leads to bad things).
I'm not 100% sure git does the right thing with mboxo, see my tirade here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?id=4950093c0c3ee71e7045b545626d2b232271cbc8&dt=2
-K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-16 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-16 7:34 mbox support in other software Eric Wong
2021-09-16 13:59 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2021-09-16 20:30 ` Eric Wong
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