3.3.1 Plain text databases

A simplest database is a plain text file, with lines representing records. Empty lines and lines beginning with ‘#’ (comments) sign are ignored. A record consists of fields, separated by colons (‘:’, ASCII 58). If ‘:’ character occurs as a part of a field, it must be escaped by a single backslash character (‘\\’, ASCII 92). Each record must contain at least two and no more than four fields:

1. SMTP ‘AUTHID’.
2. SMTP password.
3. Account name.
4. Pathname of the user configuration file.

URL syntax

The URL syntax for this type of databases is quite simple:

text:path

where path specifies absolute file name of the database file.

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