Different mail programs also have different ways of storing messages and other data. How information is stored is not an excuse for not being able to export some of the data.
An export function should be able to export all the data connected with a message. Read/Unread flags are part of this data. PowerMail may not be able to export that part of the data, and/or Mail may not be able to import it. One idea to try: See if you can export a small amount of data in a form which you can open in a spreadsheet or text editor. Do this for both PowerMail and Mail, including both Read and Unread mail. See if either one includes a Read/Unread flag. If neither export it, they probably can't import it either. Then at least you'd know where the issue lies. Possible workaround: Make duplicates of all your PowerMail folders, the original folder for Read, the duplicate for Unread. Sort the messages by Read and Unread and put the Unread messages in the Unread folders. (Maybe a script could be written which would do this for you.) When you import them into Mail you can batch change all of the Read items back to Read (since Mail marks them unread - or vice versa if I got that mixed up). Then recombine the folders and delete the duplicates. Good luck. - Winston Bernd Fröhlich wrote: >I guess every mailprogram has its own way to store the information >whether a mail is read or not. I don´t think it is possible to move that >information from one program to another. > >So you´ll just have to read all your mail first before the move ;-) > >Steve Abrahamson schrieb: >> I would think that PowerMail has a flag that it sets on a piece of >> mail to indicate whether it's read or not, and it seems like it's just >> not exporting that accurately.
