Plain text is just hokey compared to “plain text”

Ian Betteridge writes:After a couple of months of using Thunderbird as my main mail client, I’m back to Mail instead. … So – despite the hokey format that Mail stores your email in – I’ll be back with it for the foreseeable future. Ian has a problem with….plain text? Here’s a little screenshot of me … Continue reading “Plain text is just hokey compared to “plain text””

Ian Betteridge writes:After a couple of months of using Thunderbird as my main mail client, I’m back to Mail instead. … So – despite the hokey format that Mail stores your email in – I’ll be back with it for the foreseeable future.

Ian has a problem with….plain text? Here’s a little screenshot of me using vim in Mac OS X to edit a mail file. Nothing “hokey” here.

Using VIM to edit Mail EMLX files.

Honestly….must be a slow news day… Thunderbird uses plain text too…in fact you can drag and drop Thunderbirds files into Mail’s folder innards and avoid the import, if you’re a Mail hacker.

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  1. Oh sure, elmx is a text format. So it Microsoft’s Office Open XML format, and I wouldn’t trust my data to *that* either. And of course, going from Thunderbird to Mail isn’t difficult: try, though, going the other way. If you’re lucky, the elmx to mbox converter will work (Mail’s Save as… sure doesn’t). If not, you’re stuffed – and you can start looking forward to a life of parsing elmx data visually.

    Undocumented formats are not good things to use, if you can possibly avoid them.

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