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A script to clean up Mozilla's mailbox files
Authored by: kidventus on Jun 13, '04 11:39:43PM
In a word, the files had simply gotten dirty, perhaps because my archive had been growing through several versions of Mozilla Mail, each of which had slightly different algorithms for reading and writing mbox files. As a result, Mail.app's inflexible mbox importer couldn't handle my mbox files.

Sounds like someone is picking on Mail.app unfairly. Inflexable mbox importing? Sunshine, if Mozilla couldn't keep their mbox format the same it's not apple's fault. Don't call Mail.app inflexable, call Mozilla poor quality.

If you like people not adhereing to standards... go back to Mozilla. If your done with having to do all this Python conversion crap due to open source sloppyness, welcome to the world of Mac OSX.

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A script to clean up Mozilla's mailbox files
Authored by: vocaro on Jun 28, '04 04:05:03PM

Sounds like someone is picking on Mail.app unfairly. Inflexable mbox importing? Sunshine, if Mozilla couldn't keep their mbox format the same it's not apple's fault. Don't call Mail.app inflexable, call Mozilla poor quality.

Mail.app is inflexible when it comes to importing mbox files, and it does not fully support the mbox standard. See this post for more details.

If you like people not adhereing to standards... go back to Mozilla.

Actually, Mozilla is one of the most standards-compliant browsers available. The mbox problem I refer to is simply a matter of excess whitespace that Mail.app cannot handle.

If your done with having to do all this Python conversion crap due to open source sloppyness, welcome to the world of Mac OSX.

If you are a representative of the Mac community, then I don't want to have any part of it. I have never seen such a rude and hateful response to a macosxhints post!



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A script to clean up Mozilla's mailbox files
Authored by: rgillig on Sep 08, '05 03:30:46PM

The link to the apple article is not working. Any chance you could find it again?
Thanks,
R-



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