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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 548182" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Just a clarification to the above. Thunderbird's .mbx format fully follows the MBX standard. This makes importing of Thunderbird mail into any other standards compliant mailers a breeze. </p><p></p><p>That having been said however, I agree that importing Thunderbird (or in fact any other .mbx formatted) email into Mac Mail can be a bit of a pain. Mac Mail tends to be really picky about these things. Email boxes that are imported with no issue into other mailers fails on Mac Mail. Outlook/Entourage don't use MBX format (again, use their own proprietary format) and so importing there also tends to be an issue.</p><p></p><p>So, Zoolook raises an interesting issue. In selecting a mailer, you almost have to chose your email "domain of interest". If you want to run standard MBX formatted email, so that you can move the results around from mailer to mailer and platform to platform, you effectively restrict yourself to a set of mailers that does not include the two "biggies" in the consumer space, which are Mac Mail and Microsoft Outlook Express. If you are OK to go platform specific, you can use either of the above "biggies" and take advantage of all their bells and whistles.</p><p></p><p>There is no completely universal email solution because email client vendors have not embraced a uniform email standard. MBX format is the closest we have to a universal standard, but as the above painfully points out, it is not a universally used format.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 548182, member: 17052"] Just a clarification to the above. Thunderbird's .mbx format fully follows the MBX standard. This makes importing of Thunderbird mail into any other standards compliant mailers a breeze. That having been said however, I agree that importing Thunderbird (or in fact any other .mbx formatted) email into Mac Mail can be a bit of a pain. Mac Mail tends to be really picky about these things. Email boxes that are imported with no issue into other mailers fails on Mac Mail. Outlook/Entourage don't use MBX format (again, use their own proprietary format) and so importing there also tends to be an issue. So, Zoolook raises an interesting issue. In selecting a mailer, you almost have to chose your email "domain of interest". If you want to run standard MBX formatted email, so that you can move the results around from mailer to mailer and platform to platform, you effectively restrict yourself to a set of mailers that does not include the two "biggies" in the consumer space, which are Mac Mail and Microsoft Outlook Express. If you are OK to go platform specific, you can use either of the above "biggies" and take advantage of all their bells and whistles. There is no completely universal email solution because email client vendors have not embraced a uniform email standard. MBX format is the closest we have to a universal standard, but as the above painfully points out, it is not a universally used format. [/QUOTE]
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