Name of email file format

Lawrence Greenfield leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Oct 17 10:50:45 EDT 2002


   Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:04:08 +0100
   From: Simon Loader <simon at surf.org.uk>

   Andy Saxena wrote:
   > Hi,
   > 
   > It is not mbox, neither is it maildir. What is the official name of the
   > file format used by Cyrus to store email?


   Id call it Cyrus mailbox format ... (CMF)

   But prehaps CMU have their own name.

We don't call it anything. It's just the mail store. Since only Cyrus
programs access it, it really doesn't matter to us.

Larry





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