On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Stephan's Reply:
>
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> > There's a great piece of software called oe2mbx, which worked wonders with
> > my email files from Outlook Express. I initially needed the software because
> > my OE5 mailboxes became unreadable to anything under Windows because a
> > single file - folders.dbx - was missing. Nothing could read them... How's
> > that for redundancy?
Quite unprofessional. Netscape beats them by miles in the compatibility,
receovery, redundancy and scalability stakes. (And there are a lot of
criticisms to be leveld at Netscape!)
Often, I want to clean up and archive my Netscape mailboxes.
First I delete Trash, compress all folders and look around for
anything else to cleanup.
Then I delete all indexes (.*.summary files), create an archive
tarball which I know will be smallest size possible.
Finally, fireup Netscape again.
It is intelligent enough to recreate the .*.summary files
once again as required.
I don't even blink after this archive process ... everything
runs fine.
> And let's pray Microsoft doesn't come up with *yet* another proprietary
> mail format.
Unfortunately, MS is wreaking havoc with all Internet based systems.
They are introducing proprietary extensions whenever and wherever they
can to tie people down to their platform. Their sheer market mass
allows the uninformed in Netland to make statements like "But I am
using a standard - the MS standard", which of course is twaddle.
Anyone have fun with winmail.dat for one gross example?
Everytime I complain to someone sending a winmail.dat, they invariably
reply with the correct MIME-attachment and sometimes even apologise ;^)
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