Tag Archives: standards
Articles on The Coming “Digital Dark Age”
Dealing with the prospect of a “digital dark age” is one of the reasons why we built Emailchemy, but I’ve found that many have trouble with this new term because they may not be familiar with the definition of the … Continue reading
The Myth of the Received Date – Part 2
In Part 1, I explained how the “Date:” header of an email is actually the “sent date” and introduced a couple of issues with how the sent date is created by different email clients. Now in Part 2, I’ll give … Continue reading
The Myth of the Received Date – Part 1
There is no such thing as a “received date”. Not in the standards, anyway. Is this a quibbling technicality? An omission? Nope. And I’ll tell you why. Why? Because the date of a message matters. It matters more than it … Continue reading
Mac OS X Mail’s .mbox folders are not standard mbox files
I think the title says it all, but the problem is bigger than that. The whole idea that the last 3 or 4 letters of a filename are an indication of underlying file format and structure is flawed. More than … Continue reading
