Lyle D. Gunderson on 9/12/07 said >On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:17:07 -0400, "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> appears >to have written: >> >>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. > >Thanks, Jim and Barbara! I've downloaded Emailchemy and tried it out, and >it converted 80,008 emails (how embarrassing!) with no problems. > >Did I do it right? I told Emailchemy to use the "Standard Mailbox File" >format, then used PowerMail's import to bring the messages in. I created >a test user environment (a very nice feature of PowerMail, btw) for the >test. > >All the messages showed up, but lines of text were broken in mid-word >when they are OK in the mailbox file, and html emails had their html and >images attached instead of inline. Is this normal? PowerMail seems to be >able to handle html emails and images just fine when it downloads them >from a mail server. Is there a setting I'm missing or a better way to >import the email? Maybe the fact that emailer is so clueless about html >and images is why those show up as attachments, but it would be nice if >the lines got broken in a less clueless way.
I think PowerMail is happiest with Unix mail box. Is that the same as what you did? -- Barbara Needham
