Or you could grab the address book form the html code on the web interface.
Go to edit Address Book, view source, do a find for "lstAddr", it is a few lines below, then cut and paste the html code with the info you want. It will take a little clean up but if the ISP will mot send the txt files this is another option. Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Exporting addressbook from IMail > > > 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/ > 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/
