PowerMail's import from Claris Emailer uses AppleScript. In my experience, starting from an big old & well abused Emailer db, the PowerMail import was a 3 day painful process with a lot of crashing that required a lot of babysitting. I expect that my Emailer db was corrupt in various ways, so the Applescript method of coaxing the emails out worked, but was laborious. I had to go folder by folder, so when it crashed I wouldn't have to start over from the beginning. What a royal pain!
In contrast the Emailchemy app from WierdKid.com is fab! It does read directly from the CE db, and it tore through the whole dang db in less than an hour. No problems. Totally worth it if you ask me. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), cb's message of 7:43 AM, 8/14/07 >On Aug 14, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Mark James wrote: > >> I can try its import function, but I find most programs cannot >> import a >> large Emailer database. I will check it out. > >I think the problem with most apps is they use AppleScript to walk >thru the mail database and that is prone to failure. However, there >are a few out there that can read the database natively. I think >those that can do a much better job of handling the mail. > >I don't know which way PowerMail does it, but I'd guess they can read >the database directly. I think Rich has indicated that MailSmith >reads it directly. Surprisingly, Entourage and Outlook Express use >the AppleScript approach as far as I know, which I find odd since >both are created by the very same guy that created Emailer's mail >database structure in the first place! Maybe he ran into ethical >issues about using knowledge from one company while working for another. > >Emailchemy (I made it to morning), reads Emailer's database directly, >that is one of the reasons it does so well at accessing and >converting all the emai (or so I've heard, I've never actually tried >the app myself). > >-chris ><www.mythtech.net> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
