On or near 11/5/2000 4:38 PM, Omar Shahine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> On 11/3/00 4:22 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> However: In Entourage, you can drag a folder to the desktop where it
>> will become a single Unix-style mailbox file containing all the
>> messages of the folder. It will contain only basic info for each
>> message: sender, recipient, date, subject; you'll lose attachments,
>
> Actually you don't lose attachments. Whatever is in the "source" of the
> message will get saved to the MBOX file.
>
Hm. So large attachments would be something to watch out for before
exporting, or the mbx files could become huge.
>> No way I know of to back-migrate rules or accounts.
>
> For accounts it could easily be done with a Script and a text file as the
> interchange format.
>
Interesting thought. I have a script that will "back up" groups. We can
write one to back up Accounts. Entourage can create mbx files from message
folders as a backup. You can export contacts. All we are really lack are
ways to back up mail rules and calendar events and tasks.
One <really cool> feature of Claris Emailer was that you could select a
rule, drag it to the desktop, and have it saved as a special rule file. If
you then dragged that file back into Emailer, it would show up again as a
rule. I seem to remember that the Spam filter package was distributed that
way, with canned rules you could just install. That would be a very nice
thing to add to Entourage. (Maybe Jud recalls how it was done? ;-))
And I <do> think that some method of exporting events and tasks (probably
just in tab-delimited format) would be something fundamental to supply. It
would provide at least a clumsy mechanism for sharing calendar events and
tasks, and it would allow users to "back up" their calendar without having
to duplicate the entire MUD folder.
--
Peace be with you!
Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS Name: =Allen Watson
My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
--
To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To search the archives:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
