Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:52:13 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com>, "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com>, Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Message-ID: <XFMail.981222215213.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981222133616.05a64db0@mail.lariat.org>
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On 22-Dec-98 Brett Glass wrote: > 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. *shrug* I just copied my .mbx files to FreeBSD, imported them in XFMail, toggled the mails which I had read. Ye never mentioned attachments ;) Well, I provided at least an equivalent program with the ability to take over by reading the boxes... It's up to you to take the step, but who knows, it's an interesting idea to add to the functionality of 1.4. I think I will mail this to the author for the To-do list... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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