Versioning Eudora email file trees doesn't work

I tried creating a repository on our remote Subversion server in which to
store email that's managed by Eudora on Windows (i.e. a file tree of files
like .mbx, .toc, and various others).

I imported the email file tree and then checked it out again, into another
directory. Used Beyond Compare to verify that the files were all identical
to the uploaded files, except for the file dates (yes, I also wish that
Subversion would maintain the original last-modified date on files).

Fired up Eudora, pointed it to the newly downloaded directory of files, and
it crashed and burned, threw an exception, threatened to report me to
Microsoft :-), all the stuff that Windoze programs typically do when they
crash and burn.

The only two differences between the original email file tree and the
newly-downloaded working copy were the file dates and the newly-inserted
.svn directories ... yes, I also wish that Subversion would maintain the
original last-modified date on files ... oh, wait, I already said that. :-)

Anybody have any idea why Eudora can't handle email trees stored in and
retrieved from Subversion?

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Received on Tue Feb 27 20:10:59 2007