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* Charles Lasitter wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 01:42:39 -0400, Oliver Cromm wrote:
>
>> Well, here's a quick hack that worked for my SeaMonkey AFAICS in a
>> few tests. Tell me if it does the job for you. There are
>> differences between what various applications expect and accept as
>> "mbox".
>
> More feedback, mostly still good:
>
> By applying a score to newsgroup articles, I could sort them and
> delete them easily.

Good, I wanted to suggest something like that. It could of course be
done in the conversion - and "one mbx per Newsgroup" as well. I will do
that in the "proper" version.

> Something went a bit wrong with either converting or Dialog's
> interpreting of messages I had originated, since message fields were
> not properly identified. Here's how one looked after conversion but
> before import:
>
> ***** Begin *****
> postedheaderCT="From: Charles Lasitter
> < @ >","Subject: Re: Reformat quoted
> lines","Newsgroups:
> ","User-Agent:
> 40tude_Dialog/ ( )","MIME-Version:
> ","Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=""us-ascii""","Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit","References:
> <7o4r52l1iu1qcbr4p745ti03rn56ofun5b@ >
> < $ @ >","Date: Mon, 8 May
> 2006 14:03:19 -0400","Message-ID:
> <1mheaim2i3pyi$. @ >"
> msgid=<1mheaim2i3pyi$. @ >
> subject=Re: Reformat quoted lines
> newsgroups=
> email=
> identity=NCDM
> signature=Cooke Street
> server=Cox
> spelloption=1|

[...]

I believe this is a Draft or Outbox message. It was mentioned in the old
thread. The way the conversion works right now, I'm not seeing the index
files, and I don't know to which Group or Folder a message belongs.


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So how's the beer there, really?

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