Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Preparing for losing Rosetta Date: 14 Feb 2017 17:16:02 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net YWFfqqSWs5vjkgg4lMiKLgtHP5hNx7Tru4avxGOGAiN3p/SaGF Cancel-Lock: sha1:DKDld2qIpNEGBczsezxRiESjtp8= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:100325 On 2017-02-14, Patty Winter wrote: > > In article , > Jolly Roger 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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR