Binary Property Lists
While discovering how to get MobileMail to use multiple ‘From’ addresses, I found that the Accounts.plist file can spontaneously change format.
Well not quite spontaneously. I copied the file from my iPhone: it was plain text. I went into Settings, on the phone, and added a new Mail account, copied the file again: it was no longer text. According to the ‘file’ command it had become an ‘Apple binary property list’. (more…)