On 6/20/04, Doug McAdam wrote: >Anyway I was wondering about transferring in from Emailer my Address >Book. In my Emailer folder for the Emailer Talk files I know somewhere >in the hundreds of emails there is one or two where this question was >answered before but I do not seem to be able to find it. So can anyone >tell me how to transfer my Emailer Address Book over to Mail please. >And when I get Emailer working again I should be able to import from >Emailer all my Mail emails, right? > Someone may be able to come up with a simpler/more elegant way, but I would suggest:
1) Open your Address Book in Emailer (under 9 or Classic) 2) File -> Export Addresses -> (here, select LDIF/Groups if you have groups you want to keep, or you can use LDIF if not) and save (to the Desktop is easy to find) 3) You can quit Emailer and Classic/OS 9 now 4) Open your Address Book under Mac OS X 5) File -> Import -> LDIF... -> and pick the file you saved on the Desktop earlier 6) Wait while Address Book imports the addies 7) Add any other info you want/need in the Address Book (that wasn't under Emailer), like phone, snail mail address, etc. After you've done that, Mail should now have access to your Emailer addresses. >thanks much, >doug >Oh, by the way, what are the pros and cons between Emailer and Mail? >So far Mail seems to be ok but, I miss my Emailer. Is there reason to >or is that just nostalgia. I'm still holding off on totally switching to Mail myself. I haven't found Mail as readily automated as Emailer (or at least, I haven't tried to modify the AppleScripts I use with Emailer for Mail. Some things I'd like Apple to add to Mail: - Mail Actions (or similar functionality) for sorting, checking certain subjects as potential spam, color-coding email to let me know if an email is from a dear friend, Mac store, Emailer Digest, or whooever. - Color-code email (in Emailer's 20 possible colors!) - I'd also like Mail to have the ability to import my signatures (all 100+ of them)... Actually, I've been trying (Mozilla's) Thunderbird, and it doesn't have all the features of Emailer, but it seems a bit closer. I've set it in the two-pane view similar to Emailer, so it doesn't automatically open an email (and thus tip off a spammer that I'm here). HTH, Jim Rohde ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
