On 18/9/01 8:05 pm, "William Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul,
>
>> You're confusing two issues. OPIM is Entourage's _creator_ code, not the
>> file type. The creator code is not the problem. The file type Entourage uses
>> is MBOX, whereas the file type Eudora wants is TEXT. Yes, it is a text file,
>> but of a very special type. If you try importing 1 million other TEXT files
>> into Eudora, which don't happen to be constructed as mbox format but are
>> just plain old text files, or BBEdit files, or BinHex files, all of which
>> are TEXT files, it won't work. That's what's ambiguous. Since the only type
>> of text file that works is one in MBOX format, it should be honest and say
>> that it wants MBOX files. Entourage does the right thing by not being vague,
>> but precise.
>
> Thank you very much your excellent explanation. I realize now why I couldn't
> complete the import: I was changing the creator code to TEXT rather than the
> file type. I'm embarrassed, as I do understand the difference, at least now
> that
> I see that I had everything backasswards.
>
>> Entourage has now done all the work to make exporting into a
>> common standard format. If the Eudora developers want to make it easy for
>> users to switch to Eudora (as you'd think they would), they should specify,
>> or at least allow, the proper MBOX filer type to be recognized. Go complain
>> on the Eudora mailing list. This is the wrong place.
>
> Point taken. I just know that if I ask Steve Dorner at Eudora or Rich Siegel
> at
> Bare Bones (which makes Mailsmith), I'll get another perspective that makes
> sense. But I will in fact bring it up with them and see what they say.
>
> But I'm glad to have your explanation and it does make it possible for me to
> solve my immediate problem. Thank you for taking the time.
>
> Will
I can guess at what they'll say - That Eudora was using "TEXT" long before
Entourage came along with "MBOX", so go and talk to the MBU and get them to
fall in line! <g>
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Barry
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