When I used eudora that was always easy...just drag the old emails into the new folder after a reinstall.
If I'm not mistaken the drag/drop feature also works with thunderbird? I seem to recall doing that in the short time I had used Tbird. Mike On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > >Tom, haven't you, on numerous occasions, proudly proclaimed that you > >still use a 1.0 version of an email app (Claris?) because it "does > >what you need"? (Of course it's been a while, so maybe you've moved on.) > > Well I have not moved on, but I have planned my escape route. Now I just > have to find enough spare time to transfer 1000s of stored emails to the > new system. > > There was a period when I thought email clients had too many defects so I > hyng back. That time is over and I see many good choices. I look forward > to upgrading someday. > > >I use it because it keeps each individual email as a separate text > >file. If I get something that I don't trust , I can open Notepad and > >look at it. Still works in Win7. The best part about it, is that it's > >cross platform compatible with--wait for it--OS/2. > > Yes the need to keep each individual email as a separate text file was > one of my main reasons for not switching. Apple Mail now does that. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
