Marck [M], On 28-05-2002 12:04, you wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Then they should remove the importer. They cannot call it an importer if >> it doesn't work. You know what I mean?
M> No. I don't. You mean they should make no attempt to import even the M> messages that Eudora has thankfully left in one piece just to be sure M> they don't allow the mangled ones to come in? Ever heard the phrase M> "throwing out the baby with the bath water"? Yes. But. >> Either they have an importer that _works_, or they should remove it >> altogether. M> I couldn't disagree more. The importer works. Perhaps they might get M> round to adding some intelligent parsers to make up for Eudora's M> shortcomings in how it stored HTML messages, but IMO it's up to Eudora M> to offer ways of exporting those messages in unadulterated format too. Maybe it's only a semantics issue. If I use an _importer_ for X, I expect that importer to import the messages correctly. I understand that Eudora has a wrong encoding of outgoing messages but if they aren't fixed by TB then they aren't _imported_. If I get TB to open a Kaufmann Mail Warrior mailbox and the messages are unreadable, would you say they are imported? I wouldn't. If the menu point was called "View some of your Eudora messages correctly", then, yes the importer works. And regarding Eudora to export the messages, I agree. But then TB should have only the manu item "Import from Unix *.mbx file". M> They ripped the format apart in storing them in the first place. I don't disagree here. M> If there's no indicator in the message that it's in some kind of rich M> text format, TB's importer has to jump through hoops of artificial M> intelligence to work out which messages are or aren't in such a format M> before it can do something other than simply import what is there. Maybe look for the <html> </html> tags? That should be enough in most cases, or, more precisely, get most messages right. -- <greeting> Best regards </greeting> <author> Peter Fjelsten </author> <thebat version> 1.60k </thebat version> <os> Windows XP 5.1.2600 </os> ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
