Neeum Zawan wrote:
>     As for your complaint, sorry: No sympathies. Of all the mail readers 
> I've used, Outlook was the *only* one that did not use a standard format 
> for storing emails.

Possibly true for you. Certainly not for others of us.

Solaris mail. GMail. Lotus Notes. Lots of examples.

> There's simply no excuse for it, 

Sure there is.  They store more than email in the email.

>     The "other" solution was to install TB, have it import it, and then 
> just take the files from TB, which, like almost all mail readers, stores 
> stuff in a sane format.

Not that I'm arguing those other formats are *better*. But there are reasons 
for them to be non-standard.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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