Somehow or other, when I sent this, my subject line got replaced with the word "entourage" which is not a very informative subject!! Probably it was autocorrect on top of address completion, both answering to my typing "ent" and then Return. So I am resending it with a meaningful subject. I had included the original subject line as well, "was (original)", but that got lost and I don't remember it. 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/>
