MAILFOLDER Description:
The MAILFOLDER Doctype is for Unix style mail folders as well as News
folders (articles saved by RN).
Doctype Classes
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Doctype (Generic Document Type)
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Mailfolder ---- Newsfolder
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| | \___ IRList
| \______ Maildigest
\_________ Listdigest
- It currently "officially" supports Sun Mailtool, Solaris 2.x /bin/mail, Pine and Elm mail folders.
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In v2.0+ of the doctype suite the record presentation
reflects some understanding of Internet Email and
supports Solaris 2.x /bin/mail folders.
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Version 2.0+ stores unique keys for each message that
extend beyond the span of an index run. This
allows one to maintain URLs to messages.
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Version 2.0+ supports supports automatic
tracking of message-threads (on-the-fly) to create a
dynamic Web.
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In "plus" versions the parser automatically identifies
Usenet aricles and
Mail digest articles .
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The MIME type for Raw is "Message/rfc822"
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Limitations: There is currently no support for
encoded messages/headers.
The next version will have some limited
support (Presentation level) for decoding headers according to
the RFC1522 standard (MIME).
Example: