On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:51:31PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > For one thing, the fact that it's never become a standardized format, > and is instead a mix-and-match set of conventions that every mail > program has their own ideas about (often with disastrous results). I > find that hilarious. And the fact that people continue to refer to > "mbox" as a mailbox format, and continue to use it as if it were a > portable useful format... As far as I can tell, it's good for one > thing: mail that will only ever be accessed by a single piece of > software. > No different from other formats such as maildir then! :-)
-- Chris Green