[Oberon] Re (2): Format of MailMessages in Oberon.

[peter at easthope.ca]

> ... the RFC ...

For POP3, the end of a message is specified in the 3rd paragraph here.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1939#section-3

Message separation in mbox is described, poorly, at the end of Appendix A here.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4155
The period line is not mentioned.

Tentative conclusion: Linux POP3 retrievers delete the period from the end 
of a message when appending it to the mbox file.  Oberon assumes the period 
line is present in the mbox file.  To have Oberon separate messages correctly, 
a Linux POP3 retriever should be configured to not delete "." <CR> <LF> <CR> <LF> 
when retrieveing a message and appending to mbox.  Alternatively Mail.Panel 
should be revised to not require the period at the end of a message.

Regards,                               ... Peter E.



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