On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 07:34:37AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > 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...
Python only does mboxo. I've switched to using git-mailsplit in b4 because of various quirks of interaction between mboxrd and mboxo. > 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). I'm not 100% sure git does the right thing with mboxo, see my tirade here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?id=4950093c0c3ee71e7045b545626d2b232271cbc8&dt=2 -K
