{"id":37413,"date":"2022-10-20T20:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37413"},"modified":"2022-10-20T20:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:30:42","slug":"apple-mails-first-importers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/20\/apple-mails-first-importers\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mail&rsquo;s First Importers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techreflect.net\/2022\/10\/killing-one-bird-with-two-and-a-half-stones-in-mac-os-x-mail\/\">Chris Hynes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techreflect.net\/2022\/10\/killing-one-bird-with-two-and-a-half-stones-in-mac-os-x-mail\/\">\n<p>It turns out that Eudora and Netscape were the only major clients that used mbox format, BUT they had their own variations[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of reverse engineering, there were two very popular clients that didn&rsquo;t use the mbox file format at all: Microsoft Outlook and Claris Emailer. Even though we had the source code for Claris Emailer, it was still quite a daunting task, with only a few weeks to complete it.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>From the outside, it can sometimes feel like Apple is a chaotic mess. How could they have two importers that overlap each other? And the built-in one they are telling you not to use. Go download these Applescripts instead. It&rsquo;s laughable to look back on that now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hynes: It turns out that Eudora and Netscape were the only major clients that used mbox format, BUT they had their own variations[&#8230;] [&#8230;] And speaking of reverse engineering, there were two very popular clients that didn&rsquo;t use the mbox file format at all: Microsoft Outlook and Claris Emailer. Even though we had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-10-21T00:30:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"2d2f3726-e409-45c2-984e-42f7571ec62f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-10-21T00:30:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALS83JuQJRcKYTkL3Vx7GLw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,159,2293,150,1020,295,30,724,1605,854],"class_list":["post-37413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applemail","tag-applescript","tag-claris-emailer","tag-email","tag-eudora","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-0-cheetah","tag-microsoft-outlook","tag-netscape"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37414,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37413\/revisions\/37414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}