>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:08:14 -0600
>From: Bill Davis <newton@ecity.net>
>To: "NewtonTalk" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
>Subject: Re: NTLK Re: newtontalk V1 #254
>Message-ID: <MDAEMON-F200002232318.AA182021MD26099@mail.ecity.net>
>
>On 2/23/2000 7:47 PM, markr13 [mailto:markr13@voicenet.com] wrote:
>
>>Au contrare, Emailer 2.0 will give many date headaches, but only under
>>odd circumstances. One is if you pick up AOL mail (as I do) and another
>>is when routing mail to non-standard folders. I had serious problems
>>with Emailer and since I run the NuShield business with it. I went out
>>and bought Eudora before I found the fix. I'm still using Emailer
>>successfully now with no problems.
>
>re: "when routing mail to non-standard folder" - haven't heard anything
>about that. I autofile NewtonTalk and other mailing lists to folders in
>Emailer automatically with no problems. What's a "non-standard folder"?
>(I don't use AOL). Please elaborate/give URLs!
A non-standard folder is one you create yourself. I was routing mail to
sub-folders and ended up with 1944 dates. Curiously, the dates were fine
in the mail in-box. AOL would do the same.
>As I recall, there was a patch to Emailer to fix the problem so you don't
>have to use the AppleScript fix. Yep, here it is on MacFixit:
>
>http://www.macfixit.com/archives/january.00.b.shtml#emailer-01-11
>
>I also remember hearing that AOL had changed their protocol to fix the
>date problem. Yep, found it on MacFixit.com:
>
>http://www.macfixit.com/archives/january.00.b.shtml#aol-01-17
>
>AOL is now sending full four digit years instead of 2 digit years.
>
> - Bill
Well, to each his own. I've used the AppleScript to fix a boatload of
misdated files (I just found more today!). For me, it was the best
solutions since I had to fix old files that were being used for client
email backup and reference.
Mark Ross
markr13@voicenet.com
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