Barry Wainwright 3/28/2006 12:41 AM
>>> On 3/26/06 5:30 PM, "Lew Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> So far Entourage has performed poorly in it's attempts to import Group >>>> addresses from Claris Emailer 2.0v3. Each group is imported but each and >>>> everyone has only a small fraction of the actual number of addresses in >>>> each group. >>>> >>>> I am attempting to prepare for a new MacBookPro which will not run >>>> CEmailer or any other Classic app. >>>> >>>> PowerBook G4, 1GHz, 768MB, OS X 10.4.5, Entourage v11.2.3. >>> >>> Claris Emailer is about 7 years out of date. I'm not too surprised. >>> >>> Download Outlook Express and import Emailer's data into that. I think that >>> should work a lot better: loads of people did that back in 1999 and for >the >>> next few years. >>> >>> Then import OE's (contacts and) groups into Entourage. I'd suspect that >even >>> as late as Entourage 2004 that was tested fairly rigorously and should >work. >>> It certainly did in Entourage X since OE was still the default email app >>> back when Entourage X was released (for OS 10.1). >>> >>> -- >>> Paul Berkowitz >> >> Using OExpress as an intermediary works just fine. I have used that >> scheme in the past for others but had forgotten about it. >> >> One of the reasons, I have hung on to Claris Emailer long after it's >> demise in January 1998 is the way it handles address groups. I manage >> several groups for our MUG. In CE there is a column in the Address Book >> called 'Description'. Any info the user wanted could be entered here and >> one can sort on that column. This made it very easy to bring together a >> group of addresses in preparation for creating a group. >> >> This entry was placed in the Notes field of OExpress and subsequently to >> the Notes field in Entourage. Problem is that I see no way to have a >> Notes column in Address Book. If that is correct, is it possible to >> create an Apple Script that would move that info to one of the fields >> that can be displayed? >> >> Lew Nelson > >Notes can't be displayed and sorted in the address book listing, but there >are 8 custom fields that can be - why not use one of those? I will. However, OE and Entourage imported (from CEmailer) the only field other than Name and Email Address to NOTES. There was/is no control over that. So now I need a way to move the info in Notes to another field. About 700 entries are involved. Lew -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
