Index: libmailbox.tex =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/lib/libmailbox.tex,v retrieving revision 1.17 diff -u -r1.17 libmailbox.tex --- libmailbox.tex 2001/02/02 03:51:05 1.17 +++ libmailbox.tex 2001/04/11 16:17:35 @@ -69,10 +69,18 @@ \end{classdesc} \begin{classdesc}{BabylMailbox}{fp\optional{, factory}} -Access a Babyl mailbox, which is similar to an MMDF mailbox. Mail -messages start with a line containing only \code{'*** EOOH ***'} and -end with a line containing only \code{'\e{}037\e{}014'}. -\var{factory} is as with the \class{UnixMailbox} class. +Access a Babyl mailbox, which is similar to an MMDF mailbox. In +Babyl format, each message has two sets of headers, the +\emph{original} headers and the \emph{visible} headers. The original +headers appear before a a line containing only \code{'*** EOOH ***'} +(End-Of-Original-Headers) and the visible headers appear after the +\code{EOOH} line. Babyl-compliant mail readers will show you only the +visible headers, and \class{BabylMailbox} objects will return messages +containing only the visible headers. You'll have to do your own +parsing of the mailbox file to get at the original headers. Mail +messages start with the EOOH line and end with a line containing only +\code{'\e{}037\e{}014'}. \var{factory} is as with the +\class{UnixMailbox} class. \end{classdesc}