Hi Alexander,
Saturday, September 18, 1999, 6:14:43 PM, you wrote:
AVK> On 18 Sep 99, at 0:22, Dirk Heiser wrote
AVK> about "Re: Importing mail from Eudora ligh":
>> AVK> And hence TB says "empty body", that's the clue. Nothing then
>> AVK> (just another:-)) bug in Eudora!
>>
>> Who say that Eudora want to save the mails in the RFC format. ;-)
AVK> *Everybody* says:-) RFC (short for "Request for Comments")
AVK> is a set of *standards* everybody should obey. *These* are the
AVK> standards all the Internet community is based upon. Provided
I Agree
AVK> that Eudora doesn't do this, Eudora is buggy and shouldn't be
AVK> used. That's it.
But we talking about the storing format that Eudora use do store the
messages local (BTW: The Bat also don't use the RFC standard to store
the messages). And there are no rules that tell a software how it must
save his own data. The Eudora mailbox format _look like_ the UNIX
Mailbox format, but nobody say that _it is_ the UNIX mailbox format
:-)
So I think that the converter from The Bat is the bug, because a
converter must read the other format (as it is) and convert it in
another.
The converter from The Bat try to convert the Eudora mailbox file as a
standard UNIX mailbox File, that's wrong because the Eudora mailbox
Format is not like a standard UNIX mailbox File, it is Different in
some thinks. And if the Converter don't support this differences
Eudora use, the converter is buggy (IMHO of cause :-) ).
AVK> BTW, the same with The Bat!: for example, TB uses ";"
AVK> (semicolon) as address delimiter when more then one address
AVK> appears in To: field etc. This *is* the bug, since it's stated in
AVK> RFC822 that the proper delimiter to be used *is* comma (",").
AVK> The semicolon is used for *absolutely* other purposes.
I Agree, that a think were The Bat communicate with other Software, so
The Bat must follow the RFCs.
cu,
Dirk
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