On 11/6/2000 11:34 AM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
We're looking into what makes the most sense for different object types.
For example, iCal seems like a logical choice for what you get when dragging
calendar events to the desktop, just as .vcf is the logical choice for
contacts. For types that have no standard format like those, some XML based
format would make the most sense.
Dan
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