Talk:Mbox

message: http://www.industrystock.com/html/Precision%20engineering/product-and-service-uk-31522.html uses data from the main entry page without crediting wikipedia, as far as i can tell. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.57.245.11 (talk) 04:52, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  unattributed use 

message: what tools can be used to store read modify archive and search (large) mboxes files — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.64.37.239 (talk) 00:21, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you are desperate, any text-editing software can be used.  If your file is very large, you will either want a powerful computer, or software that can work with a file in pieces, without having to load it all into memory at once.  Archiving can be done manually by using any file manager to copy the files to a backup medium. 69.87.193.176 12:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What tools? 

message: The article doesn't currently contain any direct note of the fact that mbox's original format means that mailers have to mangle messages which have "From " in a line of the message. This is a well-known property of the format. Chris Cunningham 15:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of message mangling 

message: This article is a great start, but needs a lot more.  What tools can convert between the various flavors of mbox?  What tools can convert from and to what other major formats?  How are attachments handled?  Eudora stores attachments as separate files; Thunderbird seems to keep them inline with the messages, embedded in the msg files.  What about the directory structures of the message files?  Eudora allows a tree structure for storing mail, but only allows msgs to be stored at the ends of the branches -- msgs and folders cannot both appear at the same node of the tree.  Is there any way to make Tb use the Eudora form of mbox?  Will Penelope (the forthcoming Tb-based free open version of Eudora) use traditional Eudora mbox, or require conversion to Tb mbox?  The article should emphasize more the great advantage of such text-based msg storage formats, esp the Eudora type that segregates the attachments: no matter how bad things crash or corrupt, most or all of the mail content can still be accessed with basic text-viewing software.  And corrupted mailboxes can be inspected and patched manually, without special knowledge. 69.87.193.176 13:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is still barely more than a stub.  No tech details, few links to real technical specifications and examples.  This is a core current technology, and people trying to learn about it need help!  It doesn't even mention such obvious basics as, 7-bit vs. 8-bit ASCII, whether attachments etc are stored in with the messages, how they are encoded, etc.  All the real world email clients seem to use various aux index/toc files, which aren't even mentioned!  What are the formats of these aux files? -69.87.200.78 12:58, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More details needed 

message: Searching for /Berkeley mbox/ on google shows many pages referring to mbox as 'Berkeley mbox', yet there is no mention of Berkeley on this page - is there a reason for this? JohnGH (talk) 14:49, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, Berkely mbox seems to be a type of mbox, and should be included in the mbox page, not a separate page. Grantman416 (talk) 22:52, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berkeley mbox 

message: I noted your removal of the following note on the mbox page:
Is that documented somewhere else easily findable on Wikipedia?  I tried searching for mbox (on Wikipedia) and nothing that came up told me that.
I'd like to see it put back, or another reference (a page?) created on Wikipedia so someone can easily find that information if they're looking for it.
Rhkramer (talk) 17:18, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I just didn't see it as necessary, since the purpose of the main namespace is not to document Wikipedia internal jargon, and Wikipedia:MBOX already exists as a redirect to Template:Mbox. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of note