-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 August 2002 12:41 pm, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > my main concerns with Exchange are: > a. it stores its messages in binary database files; so I can't > readily use tools like grep, grepmail, procmail, vi, and logrotate to > manage them. :) > Yup. And that's by design -- Microsoft doesn't want to make it easy for people to use "viral" tools to manipulate "its" data. There's many good reasons why they should move it to XML -- but that would make life easier for people trying to get interoperability, and Microsoft isn't big on interoperability. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9UWk2y9b1AU6SGNkRAr03AJ0dRJgl2zvglco2jxUNoC4WB5R02ACguUrV 6nTQVpO1DMD2Yse6G6UFppc= =9RNE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----