powermail-discuss Digest #2688 - Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
by "Lyle D. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
by "Barbara Needham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
by "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
From: "Lyle D. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:53:23 -0600
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:56:10 -0500, "MLJames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
appears to have written:
Hi Mary Lou,
I am using the current version of PowerMail 5.5.3 and it DOES still
have
an "Import from Claris Emailer" feature. Pull File Menu to
"Database" to
"Import". Next screen asks for the location of your Emailer
application,
and your choice of address book, messages, or both.
PowerMail demo only allows a limited number of emails. 200, if I
remember correctly. So don't even try to import all your CE Emails
into
the PM Demo. Maybe just 1 folder of a few emails, just to see it
work.
In my experience, the PowerMail import from Claris Emailer worked
(via
applescript through OSX/OS9 classic barrier), but not very well for 7
years of heavy CE email usage (no doubt with some db corruption). If
you
have a lot of email, I would definitely recommend EmailChemy to do
the
migration- it's a lot better and faster. I'm surprised that CTMDev
doesn't offer it as a bundle.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Dave Nathanson
Mac Medix
Thanks Dave. And yes I do have a lot of e-mail.....since 1995 or so. I
have ordered Emailchemy.
I, too, am about to migrate, with reluctance, from Emailer. I bought it
on Guy Kawasaki's recommendation, if that tells you how long I've been
using it.
I recall there being discussed a limitation on how many messages you
could import into or have in your email database with PowerMail. Or
maybe
it was the size of the database that is the limit. I've searched my
archive of powermail-discuss digests, and can find only a reference to
a
2 GB limitation on database size. I've gots tens of thousands of
messages
in Emailer.
Are there any other limitations I should know about? I'm about to buy
EmailChemy anyway, since that looks like the way to go. If there are
limits to what can be imported, I can always go into Emailer and
create a
truncated version of the Emailer database that cuts off at some point
in
the past. Or something.
Also, does EmailChemy import attachments in a decent fashion? I have
been
deleting spam from Emailer for quite some time without deleting the
attachments, and I'm assuming that orphaned ones will be left behind
and
the good ones (attached to email that I'm importing) will come along
somehow. Do the attachments use up space in the database?
Thanks,
--Lyle
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Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
From: "Barbara Needham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:03:30 -0700
Lyle D. Gunderson on 9/10/07 said
I, too, am about to migrate, with reluctance, from Emailer. I bought
it
on Guy Kawasaki's recommendation, if that tells you how long I've been
using it.
I recall there being discussed a limitation on how many messages you
could import into or have in your email database with PowerMail. Or
maybe
it was the size of the database that is the limit. I've searched my
archive of powermail-discuss digests, and can find only a reference
to a
2 GB limitation on database size. I've gots tens of thousands of
messages
in Emailer.
Are there any other limitations I should know about? I'm about to buy
EmailChemy anyway, since that looks like the way to go. If there are
limits to what can be imported, I can always go into Emailer and
create a
truncated version of the Emailer database that cuts off at some point
in
the past. Or something.
Also, does EmailChemy import attachments in a decent fashion? I have
been
deleting spam from Emailer for quite some time without deleting the
attachments, and I'm assuming that orphaned ones will be left behind
and
the good ones (attached to email that I'm importing) will come along
somehow. Do the attachments use up space in the database?
The attachments do not take up space in the database.
There is a number of mails limit for the trial version, not for the
registered version.
There is a 2 gb limit for the powermail database. Reaching this limit
can
be staved off for a while [assuming one wants to keep all their
e-mails]
by compacting the database.
It is also possible to have your old e-mails in an Old User Environment
[by creating a New User Environment .. no new registration needed] and
I
think the search will include both.
--
Barbara Needham
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Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
From: "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:17:07 -0400
Hi Lyle,
I recall there being discussed a limitation on how many messages you
could import into or have in your email database with PowerMail. Or
maybe
it was the size of the database that is the limit. I've searched my
archive of powermail-discuss digests, and can find only a reference
to a
2 GB limitation on database size. I've gots tens of thousands of
messages
in Emailer.
To add to Barbara's great reply...
I have over 50,000 messages in my PowerMail database, and the database
size is currently less than 350 MB.
I also bought eMailer when Guy told us to. I encountered lots of
problems converting to PowerMail until I discovered Emailchemy, that is
definitely the way to go.
Jim
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Jim Pistrang
JP Computer Resources
Certified Member, Apple Consultants Network
413-256-4569
<http://www.jpcr.com>
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