On Jan 4, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I've sucked it all down from GMail into Thunderbird via IMAP. I
don't know
how to turn that into something like a mail archive file(s).
Suggestions?
"Compact folders", then dig into Thunderbird's byzantine mail
directory
structure and locate the mbox file. (Noting that it may have been
given
DOS line-endings, just to confuse matters.)
...why yes, this is on-topic after all.
Quite. The mbox format even got its own RFC[1], basically
documenting that it's widely unstandardized (read: broken) and, in an
appendix, specifying a 'default' mbox format which, even if
universally implemented to the exclusion of all other mbox formats,
would still be broken.
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4155
The mbox format meant well, but it's been corrupted beyond hope of
salvation. Now it must die.
Josh
