Jorey Bump wrote: > Opera also stores mail in the mbox format. When I decided to switch to > IMAP (not supported by Opera), it was very easy to upload my mboxes to > the server. No file conversion was necessary. All I had to do was rename > them. By using an open standard, Opera made my life easier.
As I stated in a previous message, you need not move away from mbox for storing the text portion of the message. The main difference in what I'm suggesting is how attachments are handled. If Mozilla went down the road I'm describing you would still have been able to migrate off to that IMAP server you described. What wouldn't have moved to the server are the attachments, which your admin probably would have appreciated :) Eudora's approach looks to be very similar to what Mozilla is doing now for the most part. One big mbox file with the message text, and an index file for sorting. Just no encoded attachments stored within the mbox file. Later on, -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
