From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 22 12:43:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19173 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:43:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19159 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:43:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA08074; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:42:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981222133616.05a64db0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:37:53 -0700 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, David Kelly , Drew Baxter , "Joseph M. Scott" In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19981221235740.06b4feb0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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