My best recommendation for email is to ask your provider if they support
IMAP instead of POP3.
Set up your IMAP account in Eudora / Thunderbird / Outlook on Windows and
copy and paste all your emails in to your IMAP inbox (or sub folder if you
prefer).
Then back in apple mail change your account type from POP3 to IMAP and copy
all your email in to local folders, or just leave them on your IMAP server
if it has plenty of disk space.
Note: if your email provider happens to be using Cyrus IMAP from CMU, there
is a bug in Apple Mail from 10.5.2 which makes it try and change your folder
prefix, which will hide any folders on the same level in your imap folder
tree as the inbox ... i.e. you will see any folders which are sub folders of
inbox, but not anything at the root of your imap account. Just one to watch
for because I have been bitten by it a couple of times.
If your email provider doesn't support IMAP, then you can always sign up for
a Gmail account, who provide IMAP support these days, and with close to 7 GB
of disk space you can store quite a large volume of email.
Their automatic filtering is pretty cool too, and their spam defence is
probably the best I've seen.
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Mitch
----- Original Message -----
From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: Importing windows data was Re: finally getting lepard
True. the only ms thing I have as an option is ontorage. Unless the two
are the same.
Best,
Erik
On 7-Apr-08, at 9:37 AM, hank smith wrote:
there is no oppsion to import from outlook express in mail
if so I can't find it and I have been looking all over the friggen
place.
can you tell me where to go?
it isn't in the oppsion to import your mail and account in mail
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: Importing windows data was Re: finally getting lepard
Hi Erik,
When I first tried importing from outlook express in tiger, it was
broken.
I think they fixed it toward the end but it was deffinitely fixed in
leopard
so even though there may be an option for eudora, there is no guarantee
that
it works. AS for firefox, I don't know but suspect it should be doable
since they tout that they are open source and cross platform. I wonder
if
maybe it would be possible to install firefox on the mac and port the
bookmarks to it and then move them to safari.
----- Original Message ----- From: "erik burggraaf"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 1:31 PM
Subject: Importing windows data was Re: finally getting lepard
Hi David,
Does this apply to firefox and eudora? I haven't used the windows
bloatware in 4 or 5 years now. Well, maybe three or four years. At
one time I was running windows xp on a 650 mhz laptop with 128 mb of
ram. There was just no hope for IE and OE.
Apple mail gives me all kinds of things I can import from, and one was
eudora. It was selected properly, so I don't see why it shouldn't
have worked.
Thanks,
Erik
On 7-Apr-08, at 6:42 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
to import mail, you need access to your "outlook express" folder
through
Leopard. You can do this in a number of ways depending on your
needs and
resources. Same with your favorites. You can access them directly
thorugh
a network, copy them to a portable storage device.
Once you have access to them through leopard, safari and Mail have
import
capability under the file menu. for outlook express, you will want
to make
sure you get all your folders. for favorites, you should just be
able to
import. interestingly enough, in both cases, the resulting imports
are not
tightly integrated with the rest of the mail/bookmarks. In the case
of
mail, they are in a mailbox called imported. in the case of safari,
they
are in a bookmarks folder called imported with the date of import.
----- Original Message -----
From: "michael babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: finally getting lepard
could you let me know how to do it I've been using my gf's xm media
center
computer.
thanks
mike
please visit my af profile, the up and coming accessible networking
site for
the blind and all at
http://www.audioficks.net/brinasmikey
or my personal blog at
http://www.gwfans.net
And do have your self a grait day!
thanks
Michael
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yahoo: blindy_2004
aim: ginnyslove2007
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: finally getting lepard
Erik,
It is easy to import email and favorites. Have you tried yet? if
you
have
issues, after trying, let us know. I've done it many times.
----- Original Message -----
From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac
OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: finally getting lepard
Well dang, For me it was a no brainer. The first thing on a new
installation of leppard for me was setting up my internet connection.
The second was setting up mail so I could persecute the list here
with
all my newbie questions, smiles.
Of course I did it backwards. The first thing I should have done was
wip out a tutorial and figure out how to get to menue bars and such.
That did come later when my kid in a candystore joy had mellowed
somewhat into kick the sh*t out of this useless piece of... rage.
I also found that none of my windows files would import to the mac,
so
a vmware instalation of windows xp became a priority until I can
figger out how to get my old email and faves over to the mac side.
Best,
Erik
On 7-Apr-08, at 12:55 AM, michael babcock wrote:
hi all;
could you all send me your answers to this either off list, or on
list, your choice, but i'm finally getting lepard, what do you think
the first thing i should try out is, and this is after i get it
completely installed and everything. I'm asking this, and if you
dont mind, and i'll post it if you say it's ok but i'm going to add
these to comments on my blog
http://gwfans.net
to the story "finally getting lepard"
thanks for all your answers.
btw, if you want to go to the blog that would be grait and comment
on the story
thanks
mike
please visit my af profile, the up and coming accessible networking
site for the blind and all at
http://www.audioficks.net/brinasmikey
or my personal blog at
http://www.gwfans.net
And do have your self a grait day!
thanks
Michael
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yahoo: blindy_2004
aim: ginnyslove2007
