Marta, Sorry about being so slow to get back to you.
The way I archived is nothing fancy. I have used Outlook Express for quite a while as it gives me periodic reminders to turn, face Redmond Washington, and use all the curse words I know. One hates to lose skills that are painfully gained. And well, it's also been, for the most part, serviceable. However, I only changed from 4.5 to 5.0 a short while ago, and it was at that time I did the massive backup of all of the 4.5 mail. The procedure? Really simple. I made a folder, and a set of sub-folders corresponding to mailfolder names, and did the en mass drag and drop routine, one mailfolder at a time. That copied all of the email messages into the selected folder, as individual text files. As I wish, I can drag and drop from these backups to the email program, but I only brought back those which are part of on-going projects. Of course, I could transfer the backup files to a much more competent database program, like Filemaker, but have been too busy to deal with it. I have no idea about how to do this sort of thing with the "mail" program that came with OSX, but if there's an easy and certain technique for transitioning from OE 5.0 (for OS9) to OSX Mail - without losing messages that are in OE 5 - I'll eventually make that move. Bill > From: Marta Edie <mledie at insightbb.com> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:16:01 -0400 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Processor temp and cron job - can't finds > > I am interested in saving /archiving old messages, too. > Marta > On Apr 27, 2004, at 15:12, ahw wrote: > >> I "can't help" with questions 1 and 3, but here's a shot at 2: >> >> The easy way is to go to versiontracker.com and get MacJanitor, a nice >> little 3rd party app that runs the cron tasks whenever you tell it to. >> >> How did you archive your email? Do you use Apple Mail? I'm curious >> because I need to do something along those lines too. It would be nice >> to save old messages and still be able to search based on >> sender/recipient, subject, date span, and content. >> >> Alex Whitman >> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
