On 30-Mar-2010, at 14:30, John Mayson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Daniel James <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I am concerned that it may not always import into newer versions of >>> Mail so it can be viewed and searched. >> >> Pretty sure Mail.app stores messages in good old mbox, a format that loads of >> mail applications support, including Thunderbird and Eudora. I believe even >> Outlook can import mbox. > > When Apple introduced Spotlight they went to a proprietary format, IIRC.
There is nothing proprietary about the Mail.app mailboxes, they are just Maildirs. The previous format, also not proprietary, was a modified MH folder. -- Stone circles were common enough everywhere in the mountains. Druids built them as weather computers, and since it was always cheaper to build a new 33-Megalith circle than to upgrade an old slow one, there were generally plenty of ancient ones around --Lords and Ladies _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
