Re: Address Book in Eudora
Re: Address Book in Eudora
- Subject: Re: Address Book in Eudora
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:16:54 -0400
On 08/21/2002 10:16, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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You are obviously very new on the scene and very ignorant. A eudora
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mailbox, just like the UNIX mailbox that in effect it is, is a FILE
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and NOT a FOLDER.
BWAHAAHAHAHAHA...dude, I've been running networks since they were serial
cables attaching Commodore Pets to a dot matrix printer...I'm a lot of
things, but new isn't one of them.
If A mailbox is a file and not a folder, then it shouldn9t be used as one in
the UI. It is used to contain email messages. On every other email app, this
is what a folder does. Maybe if it was not acting in a confusing manner, it
wouldn't be confusing.
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A Eudora MAIL FOLDER _is_ a folder or directory visible as such in
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the Finder and containing a number of mailbox, mbox or mbx files, a
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common practice on all serious mail systems since the year dot. You
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can also compare a sendmail drop file, which is essentially the same.
Then why do folders in IMAP accounts suddenly change their icon to a
folder/mailbox icon when I put a mailbox inside of it? Why is it that when I
create a folder, it has the same icon as a mailbox? It's an inconsistent UI,
ergo a *bad* UI, and that inconsistency makes scripting it harder than it
should be.
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The "folders" that _your_ mail program presents to you are in fact
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nothing of the kind. Your mail is contained in a vast and
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inaccessible binary file which could easily get so corrupt one day
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that you'd lose all your mail in one fell swoop. Try suggesting to
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your ISP that he drop sendmail and switch to Outlook Express!
Well, actually, the OE/E'rage database is a monster text file with some
indices and pointers to attachments. If you are *any* good with grep or
perl, you can extract stuff out of it. But then, you'd have to not be
ignorant of those apps to do that.
Mulberry has a nice consistent, albeit ooogley interface. Powermail,
Mail.app, Evolution, Netscape, Mozilla, none of these have things that
aren't really what they seem.
Your sendmail point is a non-sequiter. Sendmail is a server app, OE is a
client app. Obviously, no one would expect OE to be a replacement for
sendmail
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And your lines are too long.
Not when I send it isn't, and I only use plain text.
john
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