Winston,
Thank you for your testing on this, as it certainly pinpoints the point
of failure. Not what I'd wanted to find, but glad to have found an answer.
See my post to Barbara's following this for more. Just wanted to thank
you for the detailed testing work you did to uncover this very odd flaw,
bug, shortcoming, or just plain oddity of PM.
Steve
On 9/20/07 at 9:57 PM, Winston Weinmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>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]
