On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:04:54 -0400, "T.L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> appears to have written: > >On 9/12/07, at 10:23 AM, Lyle D. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>Thanks, Jim and Barbara! I've downloaded Emailchemy and tried it out, and >>it converted 80,008 emails (how embarrassing!) with no problems. > >Very interesting! I have several years of messages in Emailer and have >long figured importing into PowerMail could be more trouble than it was >worth. Maybe I'll try it now. > >Were you able to choose which message folders in Emailer you wanted to >transfer?
It was actually pretty slick! I did the Unix mailbox option, like Barbara mentioned. What you get is a folder (you pick the name and location) that is full of unix mailbox files. For example, my folder included: Archived/ Archived/Last Time.mailbox Archived/This Time.mailbox Archived/Time Before Last.mailbox Deleted Mail.mailbox Digests/ [too many to list here...] Family/ Family/Mom.mailbox Family/Sue.mailbox Family/Sharkey.mailbox Family.mailbox >From Unknown Folks.mailbox In Box.mailbox Out Box.mailbox Posts.mailbox Read Mail.mailbox Sent Mail.mailbox Temp.mailbox Zzyzzx.mailbox Here, "Archived" is a folder that contains only other folders, named "Last Time", "This Time", and "Time Before Last". It had no mails in it that were not in those folders. The email that was in the three folders is in the three mailbox files listed. "Family" had two folders in it, so there is a Mom.mailbox, a Sue.mailbox and a Sharkey.mailbox, but it also had emails in it, so there is also a Family.mailbox file. You can, of course, go as deep as you like. The folder structure in Emailer is mirrored in the folder structure on your Mac, with the emails in any folder being put into a mailbox file, and folders being put in, well, folders. When you go to import your email, PowerMail will for some reason assume you want to import just the mail from one mailbox. You can do that, by selecting it from the file selection dialog that comes up, or, if you want to import a folder (and its subfolders), cancel the file selection dialog and choose "All e-mail databases from folder" in the "PowerMail will import" dialog that you will see. When you choose the radio button, the "Select..." button becomes active, and you can pick the folder you want. I picked the top level folder and went out to dinner. When I got back, all those emails were in PowerMail, in a folder named after the folder I imported them from. Pretty cool. One thing you can do is use the opportunity to re-organize your folders! Move the folders around in the Finder, and that's how they will show up on PowerMail. So if your "Friends" folder had subfolders named "Tall Friends" and "Short Friends", you could create new subfolders named "Nice Friends" and "Creepy Friends", and sort all your friends' mailbox files into those. Download the demo and try it! It doesn't disturb your Emailer flles at all, and if you create a new user environment to play in, you won't disturb your PowerMail setup, either. Have fun, --Lyle
