Yeah, I sort of got that. I just found it a HUGE step backward in terms of compatibility. Many, many people have had trouble importing messages from Mail 1.x to Mail 2 for this reason.

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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
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On May 29, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:

Spotlight doesn't support anything other than files -- it can't distinguish between the messages in an mbox file, for example. Therefore, in order to have mail messages searchable (distinguishable, really) in spotlight, they had to make mail use separate files for storage.

Not saying that was a wise decision, just that it wasn't arbitrary.

gc

On May 28, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:


As, for that matter, was the other decision in Mail (decidedly NOT toward standards compliance), the elimination of the mbox format for mail. dumb.


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