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wookiee - 07 Jul 2008 19:38 GMT

Thanks for that, I had to rebuild 2-3 times by removing toc files, but
it did work!

If you sort by subject, select a few messages then command-shift-delete
them, it will screw it up every time.

RE: only then does Eudora look for the special initial lines

Are the lines just "From ???@???" or is there something else in there?

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John H Meyers - 08 Jul 2008 00:21 GMT

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:38:05 -0500:

> Are the [new message] lines [in mailbox files]
> just "From ???@???" or is there something else in there?

Isn't there a date, e.g.:

> From ???@??? Mon Jul 07 16:34:20 2008

I don't know exactly how lax Eudora is about this,
but apparently you can get away with a lot,
as opposed to our very rigorous Unix (Solaris) system,
where any mistake (even a wrong day of the week for the date!)
in an "mbox" file may be detected as "not really a new message" :)

When it comes to manual searching or scrolling, however.
through Eudora mailboxes, the constant "???@???" is a handy thing
to search for, since it tends to occur nowhere else
but in lines introducing new messages.

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Bill Cole - 09 Jul 2008 03:57 GMT

> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:38:05 -0500:
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> where any mistake (even a wrong day of the week for the date!)
> in an "mbox" file may be detected as "not really a new message" :)

Eudora may display a bogus date if you format the timestamp wrong or
mismatch day/date and try to rebuild the TOC (file or resource fork)
from the mailbox.

That timestamp is supposed to mark the time that message was added to
that mbox file. In a Unix mbox, the ???@??? will have the envelope
sender address of the message, which Eudora cannot really determine
reliably.

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