On May 26, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Rangrsz263 at aol.com asked: > One of the many things I can't figure out is how to move AOL (9.0) > email stored on a pc(no cd burner) to a Mac. I found something > online called Transend migration software and wonder if that's what > I need.
There's probably an easy way to do it, but I don't know of one. Last summer I helped someone move from Windows to Mac, including AOL mail. Here's how I did it. We purchased some software called Message Vault, which runs under Windows. This will read AOL mailbox files and output into many different formats, including the standard RFC822. It looks to me like Transend is similar. ( I was also told that older versions of Netscape can read AOL mailboxes, but I couldn't get this to work. It seems this might be true because AOL owned Netscape.) I hooked her PC up to her new iBook with an Ethernet cable and started Windows file sharing on the iBook. The iBook hard drive was mounted on the Windows side , and we dragged the converted mailboxes across. We imported the mailboxes into Mail. There are many different variations on this theme you could use, such as compressing and mailing the converted mailbox to yourself, or using an IMAP connection to a .Mac account to transfer the messages. AOL had available for download software that would convert your AOL address book to Apple Address Book format. > Also: once I put my Mac online, if I use .mac for mail, will I have > the same problem if I stop subscribing? I don't think so. Since Mail supports IMAP, you can always use that as an intermediate stop. AOL uses a strange email format that is no doubt designed to lock in users. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050526/9b1c36ab/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050526/9b1c36ab/attachment.bin
