Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:55:40 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Glenn Sieb" <ges@wingfoot.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What are people using for MUA's nowadays? Message-ID: <a06001a05bb9ba8d12cb8@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <2493.67.85.96.168.1064692382.squirrel@www.wingfoot.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0309271138260.459@a.shell.peak.org> <2493.67.85.96.168.1064692382.squirrel@www.wingfoot.org>
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At 3:53 PM -0400 2003/09/27, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> Umm... when did Eudora *stop* using mbox format? I have version 6 loaded
> on my machine for certain accounts, and it still appears to be mbox. Yes,
> they have those ".toc" files, but that's it's way of indexing things--the
> full text of all emails are stored in individual mbx files, which are just
> regular plaintext mbox files...
The problem is the mailbox separator that Eudora uses. It looks like:
From ???@??? Wed Jan 05 17:18:59 2000
In particular, the "???@???" is not right.
Moreover, it uses single carriage-return ("^M") characters as an
EOL designation, instead of the proper Unix carriage-return/linefeed
combo.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
!w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
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