Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta
Date	2017-02-14 17:16 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2017-02-14, Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>
> In article <egeq2aF9v9sU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger  <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>If Eudora had kept the original unmodified message, there would be no need
>>for Eudora Mailbox Cleaner. Keep in mind it is Eudora that mangled the
>>messages in the first place. In their default original state, messages
>>contain all parts (plain text, rich text, attachments, and headers) as a
>>monolithic block of text. That's what gets sent to the server and then
>>received by e-mail clients. A well-behaved client will store incoming and
>>outgoing messages in their original unmodified form (all message parts are
>>included in the message, nothing is modified) which is how Apple Mail and
>>other more modern clients behave. 
>
> Are you talking about MIME? Eudora predates that, I think.

The commercial version supported MIME - though I don't know to what
extent - and I seem to recall MIME extensions for the free version as
well. It definitely wasn't supported very well.

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JR

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Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-02-13 20:48 +0000
  Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-13 21:00 +0000
    Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-02-13 21:14 +0000
      Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-13 22:25 +0000
        Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-02-14 07:36 +0000
          Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2017-02-14 08:55 -0800
            Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-14 17:22 +0000
              Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-02-14 17:46 +0000
                Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-14 18:20 +0000
                Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-02-14 18:56 +0000
                Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-14 19:12 +0000
          Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-14 17:16 +0000
          Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-02-14 12:54 -0500
            Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-02-14 18:10 +0000
            Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-14 18:20 +0000
              Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-02-14 13:36 -0500
  Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-16 12:05 +0000
    Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-02-16 11:45 -0500
      Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-02-16 17:51 +0000
        Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-16 18:56 +0000
          Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-02-20 22:43 +0000
            Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-21 12:03 +1300

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