Jorey Bump wrote: > Other clients bury important > information (including the mbox name!) in the index files, which just > creates more work. I think the central question here is, who owns the > data - the application, or the user?
As stated previously, I'm not suggesting that mbox be dumped. I'm certainly not suggesting that Mozilla move to a format that is impossible to move away from. Your central question would indicate that I'm talking about binary encoding of all the mail so that nothing but Mozilla could read it. That's FAR from what I'm getting at. I'm talking about using exactly the mbox format, just without the encoded attachments stored within. Below this thread was a posting about saving attachments. The data is essentially trapped within Netscape without several hours of picking through individual E-Mail and saving them out. It seems that folks who don't get a lot of attachments in can't see what the big deal is about wanting these stripped out on the fly. Folks like Ludmilla who get a ton of them things in would desperately love to have a good way to deal with them in bulk. In this instance the application, Netscape, pretty much owns her data. I suppose I could have suggested to that person to run an install of the free version of Eudora, as the conversion would strip all those attachments out in one shot. I didn't start posting on this board to advocate Eudora, and I thought it would not be appropriate to do so. Would have solved her problem though. 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
