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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: mbox support in other software
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Since I've written the lei-mail-formats manpage, I've been
curious what other software differentiates between the various
mbox formats and supports several/all of them?

AFAIK, none of the Perl Mail::* stuff does, nor does Email::Folder
(AFAIK abandoned).  I haven't looked at libraries for Python nor
other languages...

git supports mboxo and mboxrd, nowadays; but it seems like most
other software only know how to deal with one of the mbox family
(and mixing software on the same mbox leads to bad things).