Michael Collette wrote: > In the case of Eudora the mail seems to be stored in an mbox format. Went > and double checked by opening it in Wordpad. It seems the only significant > thing it does differently than Mozilla in this regard is strip the > attachment before storing to the InBox. The message is stored in mbox > format with a link to the attachment provided. > > In other words, about what you're describing.
Attachments being stored in a separate file is a good idea. But we must maintain the message portion in a standard mbox for maximum compatibility. I would be more than happy to give up importing attachments for this extra layer of security, so long as I can still import mail to other apps. Plus, sometimes you just need to open the mail file and edit it manually, for various reasons... > While I fully agree that the AV apps should never be so stupid as to not > understand mbox, it doesn't get around the fact that they apparently don't. > Going after all the AV apps out there feels too much like attacking > windmills to me. Agreed, which is why I'm thinking something like Eudora's approach is good, as long as we maintain the human-readable email portions in a standard mbox file. > I don't use digital sigs myself, so I'm not especially familiar... <snip> WRT digisigs, I was responding laterally to Ben Bucksch's post. -- jesus X [ Booze-fueled paragon of pointless cruelty and wanton sadism. ] email [ jesusx @ who.net ] web [ http://www.mozillanews.org ] tag [ The Universe: It's everywhere you want to be. ] warning [ "I hate cats. You never know if they're dead." - E. Schrodinger ]
