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This directory (mailnews/test/data) contains various support files for the
testing of mailnews.
Not all files will be documented here, but this will be a place for some
documentation.
signons-mailnews1.8.txt
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This is a passwords file from gecko 1.8/gecko 1.9/early 1.9.1
(TB 1.5/2.0/pre 3.0 beta 1, SM 1.0/1.5/early 2.0). It is used as a test input
for several test_*Password.js files to check that we load usernames and
passwords correctly from the legacy file.
abLists1.mab
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An address book with 5 cards and 3 lists. The cards only have the email and
prefer mail format set:
test1@invalid.com unknown
test2@invalid.com unknown
test3@invalid.com unknown
test4@invalid.com plain text
test5@invalid.com html
There are 3 lists, TestList1, TestList2 and TestList3. They have the following
cards:
TestList1:
test1@invalid.com
test2@invalid.com
test3@invalid.com
TestList2:
test4@invalid.com
TestList3:
test5@invalid.com
abLists2.mab
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The same as abLists1.mab, but with com.invalid instead of invalid.com, and ListTestX instead of TestListX.
mime-torture
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This is a file which is known as the MIME torture test. It contains several
nested multipart/* and message/* segments; as its explanation describes:
This is a demonstration of multi-part mail with encapsulated messages. This
is a very complex message whose purpose it is to exercise software using the
new multi-part message standard.
The original source of this file is unknown, but a copy can be found at
mbox_modern
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A simple mbox in the form that Thunderbird currently seems to save (as
of Nov 2018).
Separator lines are of the form:
From - Fri Aug 24 11:55:47 2018
Lines beginning with "From " within the message body are escaped
by prefixing a space.
mbox_unquoted
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Old-style mbox. This seems to be what Thunderbird was storing back around
2005, and so there are likely to be a bunch of these out in the wild.
Separator lines are lines containing only: "From "
Lines within the message body beginning with "From " are not escaped in
any way.
mbox_mboxrd
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Example of the mboxrd variant, taken from the wikipedia mbox page.
Separator lines are of the form:
From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011
(note that MAILER-DAEMON is a special case - this is where an
email address usually goes, but MAILER-DAEMON can be used instead).
"From " lines within the message body are escaped by prefixing with
a '>' char.