On 9/18/01 8:37 AM, "William Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/18/01 at 12:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Wainwright) wrote:
>
>> Even after running SR1 you won't be able to directly import the mailboxes
>> into Eudora. You need to change the file type to "TEXT" first. Entourage
>> creates a file with file type "MBOX" which is not recognised by Eudora.
>>
> Thanks Barry.
>
> I'm curious. Isn't MBOX supposed to be some sort of standard? What's the point
> of writing a file supposedly in conformity to the standard, but doing so in a
> way that keeps other programs that use the standard, too, from being able to
> open the file? Perhaps I'm missing something here. Entourage is
> extraordinarily powerful, but I have sometimes felt, both with Entourage and
> with Outlook Express before it, that it was a lot harder for me to get my data
> out of the application than it ought to be....
Mbox is a standard, but there is no standard Mac file type for it.
Entourage also exports other types of data as text, such as vCards. The
file type system on the Mac allows Entourage to tag what kind of file each
of these are regardless of the name.
In Entourage X, the mbox files have an extension of .mbox, and vCard files
have an extension of .vcf. The files are recognized by type *or* extension.
Dan
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