From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 22 12:46:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21039 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20912 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.27]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA436F; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:45:47 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981222133616.05a64db0@mail.lariat.org> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:52:13 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Brett Glass Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Cc: "Joseph M. Scott" , "Joseph M. Scott" , Drew Baxter , David Kelly , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message