On 18/9/01 4:37 pm, "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....
>
> Will
The 'standard' simply lays down the information and it's format within the
Mailbox file. It does not dictate what 'file type' the file should be -
mainly because the mac file structure is NOT standard when viewed from Unix
(where mailboxes originated) or windows or most other file systems.
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Barry
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