OT: Tiger's Interface Quirks

[Dan Shafer]

Yeah, I sort of got that. I just found it a HUGE step backward in  
terms of compatibility. Many, many people have had trouble importing  
messages from Mail 1.x to Mail 2 for this reason.


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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit/RevConWest

On May 29, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:

> Spotlight doesn't support anything other than files -- it can't  
> distinguish between the messages in an mbox file, for example.  
> Therefore, in order to have mail messages searchable  
> (distinguishable, really) in spotlight, they had to make mail use  
> separate files for storage.
>
> Not saying that was a wise decision, just that it wasn't arbitrary.
>
> gc
>
> On May 28, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>
>> As, for that matter, was the other decision in Mail (decidedly NOT  
>> toward standards compliance), the elimination of the mbox format  
>> for mail. dumb.
>>
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