Comments on: Moving from Mail 2.0 to Thunderbird http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/11/28/moving-from-mail-20-to-thunderbird/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/11/28/moving-from-mail-20-to-thunderbird/comment-page-1/#comment-44033 Michael Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:37:54 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/11/28/moving-from-mail-20-to-thunderbird/#comment-44033 I should add that Mark Pilgrim's complaint about Mail's "broken" export feature to mbox--which I just detailed above--was that it didn't add a control character before any sentence beginning "From". However, I don't know of any other mail client that does add a control character *on export*. Mail adds one *on composition* of an email, and--as with Thunderbird--it uses a space (not a greater-than sign). Is this perhaps linked with both clients' use of the modern format=flowed standard? Incidentally, format=flowed is a standard that the Evolution mailer that comes with Ubuntu has still not implemented. I mean, come on guys, we're living in an era where the output device could be just about anything (from a widescreen to a smartphone) so text should be wrapped to *whatever* size of screen/window is used/chosen not artifically broken in lines suitable for a 70s console and with greater-than signs arbitrarily intruded. :-) I should add that Mark Pilgrim’s complaint about Mail’s “broken” export feature to mbox–which I just detailed above–was that it didn’t add a control character before any sentence beginning “From”. However, I don’t know of any other mail client that does add a control character *on export*.

Mail adds one *on composition* of an email, and–as with Thunderbird–it uses a space (not a greater-than sign). Is this perhaps linked with both clients’ use of the modern format=flowed standard?

Incidentally, format=flowed is a standard that the Evolution mailer that comes with Ubuntu has still not implemented. I mean, come on guys, we’re living in an era where the output device could be just about anything (from a widescreen to a smartphone) so text should be wrapped to *whatever* size of screen/window is used/chosen not artifically broken in lines suitable for a 70s console and with greater-than signs arbitrarily intruded. :-)

]]> By: Michael http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/11/28/moving-from-mail-20-to-thunderbird/comment-page-1/#comment-44028 Michael Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:26:43 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/11/28/moving-from-mail-20-to-thunderbird/#comment-44028 I'm not clear why anyone should use a conversion program at all. Open Mail > Highlight all the messages in the relevant folder > File > Save As and alter the dropdown menu to read "Format: Raw Message Source". I’m not clear why anyone should use a conversion program at all.

Open Mail > Highlight all the messages in the relevant folder > File > Save As

and alter the dropdown menu to read “Format: Raw Message Source”.

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