I refer to Mark Pilgrim, the widely-cited switcher who decided he’d rather switch than admit he doesn’t do backups.
Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Mark Pilgrim and Mail.app’s “Save As…” function:
Mark Pilgrim, who recently switched from OS X to Linux, takes the opportunity to point out that this option doesn’t create a valid mbox. Rather, it is another example of Apple’s wicked addiction to proprietary file formats.
As I noted in my comments over at HawkWings:
Just to be sure I wasn’t as big a whiner as Pilgrim, I
saved a mailbox’s contents (select all->save as -> Raw Message Format),
downloaded Thunderbird
dropped the file I created (it looked like an mbox to me but I figured I’d see if the importer saw it that way) in Thunderbird’s Local Folders directory
and hey presto. It was all there.
I’m more convinced than ever that this whole ‘OS X sux! Linux roXXors!1!’ is just a way to gin up some traffic and rile up the fanboys.
Move on, nothing more to see here.
I think he’s smarter than that, but I’m open to suggestions otherwise. I think poor impulse control might be at work here.
The thread continues over there, as well.