The company where friend of mine works has their corporate email outsourced to a third-party vendor. That vendor hosts my friend's company's corporate email using IMail 7.12, and all access to their email is either through the web interface, or though POP using MS Outlook or Outlook Express.
Several users have entered "quite a few" contacts into their IMail address books using the web interface. Now they would like to export their address book entries from IMail, and import them into MS Outlook. As has been documented several times in this forum there is no way to import or export the address book to or from IMail. An email request to the tech support of the IMail hosting vendor revealed that they too knew of no way to do this, but they would continue to look for such a utility. I know that each user's addressbook is stored in a simple text file, aliases.txt, in each user's home directory. So, the only way I can think of to do what they want is by brute force: 1. Gather a list of all users that want their address book exported 2. Send this list of users to the mail hosting vendor, and ask them to provide the aliases.txt file for each of the users listed. 3. For each user, manually import the names and addresses into Outlook. Steps 1 and 3 are easy, if not repetitive, since it would only be for about a dozen users. It would be onerous for hundreds of users. Step 2 seems to rely on the goodwill of the mail hosting vendor. I am not sure if they will cooperate and provide the information. But, assuming that they do, is this really the best way to do the address export and import? Do you have any other tricks and or tips? Thanks in advance. -- Mike van der Velden email [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator cell 604-868-1562 Kinetic Consulting Group, Ltd. Port Moody, BC. Canada "Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous." -- Bill Gates, the world's richest man. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
