Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:37:53 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com> Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Message-ID: <4.1.19981222133616.05a64db0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981222203444.asmodai@wxs.nl> References: <4.1.19981221235740.06b4feb0@mail.lariat.org>
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At 08:34 PM 12/22/98 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >OK, the short story: > >Eudora uses MBOX boxes... Just FTP them over or else through disks and import >them in XFMail by placing them in it's main Mail directory, then remake yer >folders as MH boxes to increase performance. > >Long story: there is none ;) Longer story: If you treat Eudora files as MBOX boxes, you lose all information about which items have been read and which have not. And all connections to attachments. And information on which messages have been "deleted" but are still present in the file. That information is kept in the separate index files. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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