1. The first 96 bytes contains: * Folder description, right filled with lowecase 'a' * Other folder/hiearchy info * More lowercase 'a' to pad to the right 2. Then the format appears (to me) to be the same as Unix 3. The message termination seems to be indicated by: * hex OD OA OD OA 1A * CR LF CR LF -> 4. From '3', it is only the hex '1A' value that could indicate the msg terminator, because email bodies could have two CR/LF's anywhere. 5. I don't know if any encoding would contain hex '1A" though, so looking for the 5 character string (in hex) would be safer, plus looking at the next line (record) in the mailbox, it would be something like "X-Apparently-To: "