Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:39:24 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? Message-ID: <9604121339.AA23869@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604112218.PAA05168@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9604112045.AA16355@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199604112218.PAA05168@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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<<On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:18:27 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said: > How does this API enforce RFC compliant message formats better than > or equvalent to enforcement by any potential replacement API? It doesn't, and it shouldn't. Internet mail standards are based on text manipulation for a very good reason (indeed, several). Of course, this is completely irrelevant to the original topic of discussion, since there is no STD specifying From_ mailbox format (or, for that matter, any mailbox format). > In code whose intent is to performs identical function but which is > yet unshared between these applications, needlessly duplicating > massive amounts of programming effort? Well, if you can design an API that works equally well in C, Tk/Tcl, and Emacs Lisp, I'll certainly congratulate you... on a marvelous exercise in pointlessness. There is a standard (well, Proposed Standard) mailbox-access API, called IMAP, and I don't exactly see it as a roaring success. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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