I have been using Entourage for a while now but am less than impressed. I want to re-import my mail and address book into another app like Eudora but no email client I have tried is able to import my mail from Entourage. I have been unable to find any info about how to export my messages. Is there a way to do it? Is there an applescript that could convert the Entourage format into something a bit more accesible for other programs? I realise I could save everything as a text file but am hoping for something that can do them all in one hit. Any advice? Thanks Martyn Entourage:mac Talk said at �Entourage-Talk Digest - 11/29/00�. [29/11/2000 22:52] > Entourage-Talk Digest - Wednesday, November 29, 2000 > > Re: Label & Envelope Printing > by "George Arellano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > test > by "Dave Santo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Exporting as mbox > by "Hunter Hillegas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Exporting as mbox > by "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Moving custom field data to a default field > by "William Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Exporting as mbox > by "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroup Reading (was: How do I find a Group?) > by "chris stearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Exporting as mbox > by "Hunter Hillegas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Holidays on the calendar > by "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Exporting as mbox > by "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Exporting as mbox > by "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Could Entourage interfere with Visor backup? > by "WP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Another Save As....limitation > by "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Newsgroup Reading (was: How do I find a Group?) > by "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Russian in Entourage. > by "Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Russian in Entourage (update). > by "Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Printing Labels and Envelopes > by "George Arellano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: Holidays on the calendar > by "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Label & Envelope Printing > From: George Arellano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:12:27 +0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Hello, David -- On 11/29/00 12:00 PM (Taiwan Time), You > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I think you need to do this from within Word 2001, using the Data Merge > > Manager. It's not very well documented, but you should be able to use a > > handful of fields from the Office Address Book which Entourage shares. > > > > Earlier I brought up the fact that ALL of the fields are not available for > > merge (WHY NOT??), and categories are ignored, but no one has responded to > > these limitations. > > Thanks for your response. I tried Data Merge once and it didn't work. Since > no one else seems to know how to do this, and since no scripts exist (hint, > hint, scripters ;-)), I'll give it another try to see if there's some way to > finagle the desired performance. I must say this certainly is a far cry from > Palm and Organizer, where you could simply select print->contacts->name and > business address->envelope or label style/layout (or something along those > lines), and proceed to print hundreds of labels or envelopes in one shot. > > Re-implementing this capability in the next version of Entourage would be > welcome.... > > Thanks/Regards, > George Arellano > > > > >----------------------------------------------- > >>George Arellano > >>IPS, Ltd. > >>Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Bahamas > >>Tel: +886-2-2837-8261 > >>Fax: +886-2-2837-8267, +886-2-2837-8268 > >>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Web: http://ips-asia.com > > > Subject: test > From: Dave Santo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:58:30 -0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > test... sorry > > > Subject: Exporting as mbox > From: Hunter Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:42:57 -0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > I thought I saw a note somewhere that you could export folders in Entourage > as mbox files. > > Is this true? > > How would this be done? > -- > Hunter Hillegas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Exporting as mbox > From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:47:50 -0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > On 11/28/00 9:42 PM, "Hunter Hillegas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought I saw a note somewhere that you could export folders in Entourage > > as mbox files. > > > > Is this true? > > > > How would this be done? > > Just drag them to the desktop or anywhere on your hard disk. > > -- > Paul Berkowitz > > > Subject: Moving custom field data to a default field > From: William Howarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:51:59 -0500 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > I am resending this message because it apparently got lost while our list > server was down during the holidays. At least I never saw it as posted. > Would appreciate any advice from the script geniuses. > ----- > I was about to launch my first Entourage-to-Palm synch, when I noticed that > many of my Contacts have a custom field marked "Spouse" on the Name and > E-Mail tab rather than the Personal tab, where Entourage has a default field > for "Spouse". > > This apparently happened during my import from both Outlook Express and Palm > Desktop. I'd like to move all the custom field data to the default field. > Does a script exist that will automate that process, or will I have to > correct over 900 Contacts by hand? > -- > William Howarth > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth > > > Subject: Re: Exporting as mbox > From: Dan Crevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:54:40 -0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > On 11/28/2000 9:42 PM, "Hunter Hillegas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought I saw a note somewhere that you could export folders in Entourage > > as mbox files. > > > > Is this true? > > > > How would this be done? > > Just drag a folder to the desktop. > > Dan > > > Subject: Newsgroup Reading (was: How do I find a Group?) > From: chris stearns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:55:20 -0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > > <<2nd posting - 1st time didn't seem to work>> > > G=FCnther Vansteelant wrote: > > > A feature I'm missing from Entourage is the possibility to sort on multip= > le > > columns. In Now Contact you can shift click on different columns and the > > contacts will be sorted likewise in the order you clicked. This way you > > could sort by category and then by company and then by name. > > An excellent idea. I'm sure it would prove useful to many people. > > On a related point (which may have been mentioned before), Entourage has > carried over the 'broken' newsgroup sorting of Outlook Express 5.xx. > Newsgroup comments still cannot be sorted by thread _and_ date (e.g.. most > recent threaded comments first). This is a particularly annoying shortcomin= > g > that I hoped Entourage would fix. > I remember the Microsoft Mac team, after the release of Outlook 5.0, > explaining it by saying something like "there are many other newsreaders fo= > r > the Mac market, Outlook is not trying to compete with them...". This is > absurd, considering that Outlook 4.5 did the job just fine. I can understan= > d > avoiding adding this functionality if it is not a priority, but why REMOVE > it? Why not just remove the newsreader entirely, instead of just making it > less useful than before? > > I'm not a heavy Usenet user, but when I do use newsgroups, I like to read > them in a reader with a preview pane, (like OE 4.5 had). I know that the > Newswatcher (YA-, MT-) series has many more features than OE or Entourage, > but I dislike the way it spawns window after window. The way I see it, ther= > e > are a couple options: > > 1. Download and install OE 4.5 again and use it just for NG's. > > 2. Use Netscape Communicator 4.7.x as above (I think the mailer is ugly, > but it does NG's right) > > > Any other ideas? > > > CMS > > > Subject: Re: Exporting as mbox > From: Hunter Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:55:53 -0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > I assume this only works under MacOS 9? > > It doesn't seem to in MacOS X PB... > > Thanks! > Hunter > > > From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:47:50 -0800 > > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Exporting as mbox > > > > On 11/28/00 9:42 PM, "Hunter Hillegas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I thought I saw a note somewhere that you could export folders in Entourage > >> as mbox files. > >> > >> Is this true? > >> > >> How would this be done? > > > > Just drag them to the desktop or anywhere on your hard disk. > > > > -- > > Paul Berkowitz > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To search the archives: > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > > > > > Subject: Re: Holidays on the calendar > From: "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:35:14 -0500 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > No offense intended! I was just frustrated by the fact that there's no way > > to automatically schedule Easter since it follows a hard-to-repeat schedule. > > Paul! We need an AppleScript. ;-) > > As previously mentioned, see <http://www.davros.org/misc/easter.html> for > the algorithm. ;-) > > ##### > > Or, if you just want to know the Paschal full moon for the next 9 years of > so, see <http://www.treasure-troves.com/astro/PaschalFullMoon.html> > > Okay, okay, the next 9 years or so of Easter dates: > <http://www.treasure-troves.com/astro/Easter.html> > > And, for the truly dedicated, the dates of Easter from 1700 A.D. through > 2299 A.D. And a sample program in BASIC. And a discussion of the > difference between Catholic Easter and Orthodox Easter. ;-) > <http://www.assa.org.au/edm.html> > > mikel > > PS: It should be abundantly clear by now that I suffer from an interest in > the history of science. And oddly enough, the quest to determine the date > of Easter is arguably responsible for much of modern science. > > PPS: Of course, any legitimate calendar program (hint, hint) should have the > ability to "predict" Easter built-in. But then you'd undoubtedly offend > other religious groups. > > PPPS: More than you ever wanted to know about calendars: > <http://www.chariot.net.au/~gmarts/calmain.htm> > > > Subject: Re: Exporting as mbox > From: "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:50:44 -0500 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > I assume this only works under MacOS 9? > > > > It doesn't seem to in MacOS X PB... > > Please send me a Powerbook with MaxOS X installed and I'll confirm or deny > the behavior. ;-) > > mikel > > PS: While my soon-to-be-announced new position will include a Powerbook as a > "perk", I'll be holding out for the new Spring Powerbooks [most likely after > Easter ;-)]. > > > Subject: Re: Exporting as mbox > From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:54:28 -0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > On 11/28/00 10:50 PM, "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PS: While my soon-to-be-announced new position will include a Powerbook as a > > "perk", I'll be holding out for the new Spring Powerbooks [most likely after > > Easter ;-)]. > > > Which Easter would that be now? ;-) > > -- > Paul Berkowitz > > > Subject: Could Entourage interfere with Visor backup? > From: WP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:43:42 -0500 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3057900224_7866" > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --B_3057900224_7866 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > I just installed the Entourage conduit for Pam Desktop and now my Handspring > Visor isn't backing up properly? > I'm wondering if there's a connection? > It was doing everything perfectly before, and there doesn't seem to be any > problem in transferring the Entourage data but the log reveals that it isn't > backing up fully. > > Has anyone an idea what might be going on? > > --B_3057900224_7866 > Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <TITLE>Could Entourage interfere with Visor backup?</TITLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY> > <FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">I just installed the Entourage conduit for Pam Desktop= > and now my Handspring Visor isn't backing up properly?<BR> > I'm wondering if there's a connection?<BR> > It was doing everything perfectly before, and there doesn't seem to be any = > problem in transferring the Entourage data but the log reveals that it isn't= > backing up fully.<BR> > <BR> > Has anyone an idea what might be going on? </FONT> > </BODY> > </HTML> > > > --B_3057900224_7866-- > > > Subject: Re: Another Save As....limitation > From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:23:03 -0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > On or near 11/22/00 4:07 PM, William Howarth at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > observed: > > > Thanks, I tried dragging but the text in Word is not wrapped. I like Allen > > Watson's suggestion to use his script, which is still called "OE Many to > > Word" but does in fact work with Entourage. > > There is a version of it called "Entourage Many to Word". I think I made a > few small changes in it as I ported it from OE, but I don't recall for sure. > It's in the Entourage section of my web site (below). > -- > Peace, > Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson > A Mac family since 1984 <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> > Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: > <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/> > > > Subject: Re: Newsgroup Reading (was: How do I find a Group?) > From: "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:31:46 -0500 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > Why not just remove the newsreader entirely, instead of just making it less > > useful than before? > > Be careful what you wish for... > > > As a former developer of a commercial software package that integrated > (among other things) both a mail client and a news client, allow me to say > the following... > > The vast majority of the people who pay for your software don't care about > the news client. > > In fact, the people who decide which software the people who use your > software will use are oftentimes out and out opposed about the software > having a news client. > > While, to a very large degree, a news client "falls out" of a proper > IMAP/MIME client, there is still work required to make it work properly. > > > The incremental revenue associated with a news client is nearly zero. The > incremental cost is not. This means that the margin of return for investing > time, energy, and resources in a news client is nearly zero. > > And every bit of time, energy, and resources that goes into the news client > doesn't go into something else...that almost certainly has a higher > potential rate of returned. > > > Absent Microsoft managing to get someone like Simon Fraser to join their > staff (and since last I looked he'd gone to Netscape...so what are the > odds...), I suspect that we're more likely to see the news client eventually > go away rather than become the standard by which all other news clients are > judged. Which I personally find disappointing because I'd much rather have > a single application for all of my messaging needs. > > > So anyway...I wouldn't be too cavalier about "Why not just remove the > newsreader entirely"... > > mikel > > > Subject: Russian in Entourage. > From: Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:35:40 +0300 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > I see that some members of the list have renamed Entourage to Enrage. I am > starting to appreciate this sentiment. The first day I wrote in KOI8-R > encoding, things worked fine. Now however, for some reason Entourage keeps > correcting my writing in Russian - even without a sorely needed Russian > spellchecker. I no longer can right "me" in Russian, which is a one letter > word that looks like a backwards capital "R", but changes it to a "zh" which > looks like a capital "X" with an extra line through it. Enrage also corrects > "mine" to a nonsense word "benja"! No manual with Office 2001 definitely > doesn't make this issue any easier either to deal with! Fortunately, I have > ordered a third party book (Microsoft manuals were never worth more than to > be used as toilet paper anyway) from Amazon, however I find it hard to > believe that this topic will be covered. Any ideas from the Microsoft crew? > > > Cheers, > > Brian > -- > Are you an international/multilingual Mac user that is interested in > everything Macintosh? Would you like to find out more about multilingual > software for the Mac? How do you order Apple products if there is no Apple > Store for your country? Try the International Mac User List! > > To subscribe, send any message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > > Subject: Russian in Entourage (update). > From: Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:34:22 +0300 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Interesting, I found that my problem was caused by having had problems with > the speech set. I am using OS 9.0.4 (Z), but when reinstalling the speech > set, had by accident installed the UK version. Everything seems to be > working again after I reinstalled the correct (International English) > version of the speech set 8-) > > > Cheers, > > Brian > -- > Are you an international/multilingual Mac user that is interested in > everything Macintosh? Would you like to find out more about multilingual > software for the Mac? How do you order Apple products if there is no Apple > Store for your country? Try the International Mac User List! > > To subscribe, send any message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > > Subject: Re: Printing Labels and Envelopes > From: George Arellano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:47:51 +0800 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Hello, David -- On 11/29/00 12:00 PM (Taiwan Time), You > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > >> I think you need to do this from within Word 2001, using the Data Merge > >> Manager. > > I responded earlier today with: > > > Thanks for your response. I tried Data Merge once and it didn't work. Since > no > > one else seems to know how to do this, and since no scripts exist (hint, > hint, > > scripters ;-)), I'll give it another try to see if there's some way to > finagle > > the desired performance. > > Latest update: > > I have since re-tried the Data Merge process in MS Word, but it is a pain. > Once you have the label layout set-up, you have to copy and paste each name > and address individually, and because the name/address auto copy/paste in > Entourage does not include the co. name, you then have to also copy and > paste the co. name in separately for each label, as well. To print several > hundred addresses on pages of 18 labels each, by this method, is an > extremely slow and labor intensive process. , However, I found a workaround > that is a much better and faster solution, but is also so completely > convoluted to be bizarre. Fortunately, we still have at least one computer > that hasn't been upgraded and still runs Organizer -- I exported the > Entourage address book data to that computer, then imported the Entourage > data into Organizer, sync all the fields beforehand. From there, it was > simple -- in Organizer, simply "mark" the name entries to be printed, select > the label format (which we had set-up long ago in Organizer), and print. > While this method works, it doesn't say much for Entourage, when I have to > import data back into an old version of what it supposedly replaced, to > perform what should be a simple printing routine. Entourage, overall, is a > great program, but with printing capabilities that are "primitive" compared > to any of it's predecessors, is regrettable.... > > Regards, > George Arellano > > > >----------------------------------------------- > >>George Arellano > >>IPS, Ltd. > >>Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Bahamas > >>Tel: +886-2-2837-8261 > >>Fax: +886-2-2837-8267, +886-2-2837-8268 > >>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Web: http://ips-asia.com > > > Subject: Re: Holidays on the calendar > From: "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 03:53:30 -0500 > Mime-version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > PPS: Of course, any legitimate calendar program (hint, hint) should have the > > ability to "predict" Easter built-in. But then you'd undoubtedly offend > other > > religious groups. > > Which reminds me. > > I want the calendar to understood "every full moon". > > 'cause we do full moon kayak trips and it's such a pain to have to always > look them up. > > I wouldn't be opposed if the calendar simply included moon phases in some > view... > > > Of course...you could have "every solar eclipse" and "every lunar eclipse" > as well. But that's a bit more location specific...and thus somewhat more > challenging. > > And I'm guessing tide tables are right out. (1) > > mikel > > (1) One of the full moon trips we run (when the water level is right...oh > yeah, can't I have the calendar automatically fetch gauge levels from around > the web?), includes running the Mid-Atlantic Fall-line (aka the spot (most > often a waterfall) where the Potomac River (in this case) switches to being > a tidal river). To plan this safely, we usually have to find the time of > sunset, the time of military twilight, the time of moonrise, the water > level, the water temperature, and the tide state and times for Washington, > DC. > > > End of Entourage-Talk Digest > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To search the archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
