[plug] Stopping Mailing List for holidays

[I am the LinuxAlien]

I am probably just going to use the webmail interface.
My PLUG archive had got a 2.8MB unsorted mail Box plus lots of little 
sorted boxes. If ne has the time they can sort it for me. So far Eudora 
hasn't corrupted any of it.
Thanks
Tim
At 11:34 AM 13/04/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>Cameron Patrick wrote:
>>On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:38:09PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
>>| .. although you use Eudora, so it probably corrupts its
>>| folder indexes every week and trashes it all? (microsoft called that
>>| feature autoarchive) ..
>>Hmm, never did it to me. :)  Eudora stores its folders in Unix mbox
>>format[1], too, so when the time came to Switch(tm) it was relatively
>>painless.
>
>Oooh, trust me, Eudora 3.3 for the Mac and for windows /loves/ to corrupt 
>indexes. It doesn't lose your mail but it'll take forever rebuilding the 
>index. I speak from (support) experience, unfortunately.
>
>Eudora 5 seems to have that problem nailed, but instead has a lovely quirk 
>with a lockfile to prevent profile sharing. It
>         (a) creates it too late in loading, so a user double-clicking on 
> a windoze quick-launch icon gets two copies with the same mbox files open 
> - ick.
>         (b) can't properly detect whether there's a running instance, so 
> it assumes the lockfile is valid and so after a crash locks the user out 
> of their mailbox 'till the lockfile is manually deleted.
>
>
>As for the eudora .mbx files, at least in v3 they're in almost-mbox format 
>unfortunately. It strips out the attachments and does something funny with 
>the headers, plus it doesn't handle mime-multipart correctly. As a result, 
>something like Mozilla or mutt gets /really/ confused loading eudora v3 
>mbox files. They have to be run through a "fixer" script first, and mine 
>isn't what you'd call good.
>
>Rant over.
>
>Craig

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