jesus X wrote: > 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... >
And how pray tell does storing attachments in the mbox file prevent you from opening it and editing it manually. I would not be more than happy to give up importing attachments. The vast majority of attachments I never save off to another location, because quite frankly they are worthless to me out of the context of the e-mail. It is very nice to be able to both backup your mail and move it to other computers/partitions by only copying one file. It is very hard to do this with Eudora without losing attachments since Eudora just throws all your attachments into the same folder as its program files so you can never tell what's what(note: I have never used Eudora since I moved off Win95 so if this has changed, excuse me).
