Regarding the idea of moving all the unread mail into a temp directory, doing the transfer to Mail app and then transferring the unread messages back to their original folders - once you set up/transfer over all the current filters you're using to deal with your mail, won't you be able to apply them to the temp folder and get the unread messages back where they belong?
Paul On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:49:37 -0500 Steve Abrahamson wrote: >On 9/18/07 at 6:57 PM, Ben Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > >>Steve Abrahamson wrote at 11:07 AM (-0500) on 9/14/07: >> >>>I'm trying to move an account over to Mail (partially in an effort to >>>dodge the 2 gig limit that looms on the nearing horizon), and when I >>>drag a folder out to the Desktop, and then import it into Mail, all the >>>mail comes in as unread. >> >>Hey Steve, >> >>I don't use Apple Mail, but is there not some way (as there is in >>PowerMail) to select a range of messages and then mark them as unread? >>Wouldn't that solve the problem? >> >>Alternatively, if the issue is that you have a mix of read and unread >>messages in PM whose statuses you wish to preserve, I would suggest >>creating additional temp folder[s], moving the unread messages to there >>for the export, and then re-adjusting their statuses accordingly once in >>Apple Mail. > >Ben, > >Thanks for your thoughts. The idea is to preserve the read/unread status >where the messages reside. > >I have over 100 nested folders, somewhere between 50k-100k emails, and >the read and unread are interspersed throughout. Creating an "unread" >folder and moving all unread mail there, then putting it back, would be >a massive undertaking. > >Steve
