While the advice offered by Wolfgang (see below) works, there must be a more direct way to archive mail folders from PowerMail directly into Filemaker Pro without having to go through Excel.
Perhaps the solution would be for PowerMail to support a CSV export option?? Dave Burbank Reply to message sent by g4net on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:26 (-0600 from GMT): >It works like a charm if you do the following intermediate step: > >1. open the tab delimited export form powermail with MS Excel > >2. Save from Excel as 'CSV Comma delimited" > >3. Import the records form the csv file into the Filemaker template > >I also found that Filemaker chokes on the tab delimited export from PM 4. >I guess it would be great if PM could add a comma delimited export, then >the intermediate step should not be necessary > >Wolfgang > >>When I export the messages in a PowerMail 4.0.1 mail folder into a tab >>delimited text file and then use the FileMaker Pro template provided with >>PowerMail to import the data, all the data gets imported into the wrong >>place. Has anyone been working with a FileMaker database which properly >>accepts the PowerMail 4.0.1 export? >> >>Dave Burbank
