Steve -
I tried my suggestion to export test files using the various export
formats PowerMail supports. I tried Eudora, Mail, Unix, PowerMail
Exchange, Tab Text and Tab Text UTF8. I had one Read message and one
Unread message in each export.
In every case PowerMail had this for both messages:
Status: U
Below is a simplified version of what the Unix export shows.
Maybe this is why CTM has not responded. PowerMail does not export Read/
Unread flags properly. It sets them all to Unread.
While I love PowerMail, it has some bugs in it that are like beta level
software. CTM should be embarrassed, and probably is.
Can anyone help with a script? (Maybe a modification of the "Change
subject" script that adds a Read flag to those messages?)
- Winston
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
Status: U
From: "user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Export Test - Unread
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:29:43 -0400
X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.5.3 build 4480 English (PPC)
Export test for UN-read mail.
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
Status: U
From: "user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Export Test - Read
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:29:07 -0400
X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.5.3 build 4480 English (PPC)
Export test for read mail.
Steve Abrahamson wrote:
>Paul,
>
>Even finding and collecting all the unread mail and putting it all in
>one place is a mammoth task (hundreds of nested folders, etc, as below),
>and filters do not get all mail filed where it belongs - while I do have
>several dozen filters to handle the majority of mail, I actually file
>many things *gasp* by hand ;-)
>
>No, I can't really envision any sort of workaround here - I need for the
>read flags to be respected, in place.
>
>Still haven't heard anything from CTM on this issue - is there some
>reason the read flags aren't being exported? Am I using the wrong export
>format?
>
>Steve
>
>
>On 9/21/07 at 12:49 AM, Paul Collett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>Steve Abrahamson
>Ascending Technologies
>FileMaker 7 & 8 Certified Developer
> http://www.asctech.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
