Jorey Bump wrote: > Michael Collette wrote: > > >> Since IMAP was brought up as a concern, found the following article on >> how >> Eudora deals with attachments in this kind of setup. Not too far off >> from what I was guessing. >> http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/acn/support/imap/eudora.html > > > This only addresses downloading the messages to a local drive. If your > mail gets destroyed, or you move to another server, does Eudora's system > allow you to upload your messages to the server, fully assembled, in > mbox format?
That's actually a couple of different subjects mixed together. If the user was utilizing IMAP and the data was destroyed, the client doesn't really enter into the equation. For a POP user, if they backed up the entirety of their mail folder, then everything would be there to restore. This is just as true for Mozilla today. As to the export from Eudora to a IMAP server, I provided a link to a conversion utility that does this. In fact, are there any serious mail clients existing today that don't have a Eudora conversion utility? Certainly the code already exists within Mozilla to convert from Eudora's setup to Moz Mail. The only thing that would need to be added is a menu hook to export using this same code I would imagine. As noted in that securiteam.com article, the only difference between Eudora and a pure Unix mbox is that they link to the attachment. Otherwise the formats are about identical. This ain't like trying to read a Word document here. If anything, Eudora's methodology simplifies the mbox files quite a bit. No massive uuencoded muck in there. I would have to imagine this would provide for a healthy performance boost for Mozilla as it would be dealing with far smaller files. Lastly, if the links to the file attachments were relative to the /mail folder then you should be able to move the /mail/attach folder up to the IMAP server without conversion. In theory anyway. The mail client would have to know how to read the link. I would think most mail clients know how to react to a hyperlink. Even Pine can do that. 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
