Re: Email and XyWrite

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

Harry,

This is fascinating. I've always been trying to figure out how the Eudora
mailboxes work, although my curiosity has been moderated by my fear of
bombing the program that I depend on for my work.

The only problem I have with your system is that I can't get the From
???@??? trick to work. When I insert it between messages, even preceded by
2 carrier returns, I just get 1 big message. Furthermore, when I move
messages from one mailbox to the other, Eudora seems to insert end-of-file
characters between each message, which makes them unreadable by XyWrite.
But other mailboxes don't have EOF characters between messages.

In playing around with it, I notice that one of the separator formats that
works is
>From ???@??? Mon, Jan
but not
>From ???@??? Mon, 15 Jan
or
>From ???@??? Mon, 15 Jan 2000

Anyway, it's fun to open up a new mailbox, get an error message that the
file is damaged, and see how Eudora figures out how to repair it.

Norman


At 03:28 PM 6/15/02 -0400, Harry Binswanger wrote:
>
>***This message was created in XyWrite*** and sent by Eudora.
>
>As this email shows, contrary to what Paul wrote, my method does create
>email that Eudora will send. I'm using Eudora 4.3, but I'd wager this will
>work in any Eudora. And probably in most email programs.
>
>Paul: you can forget the intimidating .TOC (table of contents) file. Eudora
>just makes a new one if the old one is absent or vermischt.
>
>There is a trick: once in Eudora, you have to manually transfer the
>message(s) from the mailbox you created to the OUT mailbox. You'll get an
>error message, which is to be ignored.
>
>Once ready in the OUT mailbox, you can edit it, add header info if needed,
>queue and/or send it.
>
>BTW, don't worry about the date and time stamp that goes along with the
>???@???. That's dummy info. And you can create multiple messages. Just
>begin each message with:
> From ???@???
>and end each with a blank line (i.e., two carriage-return/line-feed pairs).
>(Note that the above came through as part of this message, because it
>didn't have a blank line before the From ???@???.)
>For this email, I put in the To: and Subject: headers, after the From line.
>
>Enjoy,
>Harry
>
>
>
>Harry Binswanger
>hb@xxxxxxxx
>

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