Barbara,
Wow, is that ugly - and yet, I cannot help but agree with your
conclusion that this is actually the simplest way to manage this. And
it's ponderous, to say the least.
Sadly, it leaves me feeling like PM is keeping me hostage, and I really,
really don't like to feel that way. My feeling is that if an application
"lets you leave" any time you want, it's doing its best for you and is
honest in keeping your business. If an application makes it difficult
(or impossible) to leave with your things, then the developers (again,
this is always my feeling, not necessarily what CTM are doing) are not
confident in their product's superiority and are going to try to keep
you by making it too hard to switch.
Ultimately, though, as much as I like PM, this issue, in combination
with the 2 gig limit (which this was an effort to sidestep) may push me
from PM entirely. If this was going to be something I could manage on a
somewhat regular basis - to move a bunch of mail out to Mail, and
thereby have all of my mail available all the time - I'd keep it up. If,
however, this process is this involved, it may, to my sadness, simply be
easier to move it *all* once and be done.
It's a shame. I like PowerMail. I like the idea of an independent
developer-based mail app. I don't particularly like being tied to
Apple's cycle of OS updates to update my apps. But the time may have
come where PowerMail, which I chose initially because my mail needs
surpassed Mail's abilities, no longer can meet my mail needs.
Sad, really.
I'll have to ponder this a bit, but it doesn't leave me feeling positive
about the future of my mail app of choice.
Barbara, again, thanks for the clear thinking on this one. It really
does look like the only way to move mail accurately out of PowerMail.
Sincerely,
Steve
On 9/20/07 at 8:51 PM, Barbara Needham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>Barbara Needham on 9/20/07 said
>
>OK, this is the only way I can see to do this; which will take some time
>but preserve read/unread status. Well, it doesn't actually preserve it
>but keep track of it.
>
>It involves pretty much what other people have said, but not mixing up
>your folders. But you would have to export each folder in two batches. Go
>to a folder, sort by read/unread, then export selected messages as
>"folder name/read" and "folder name/unread." When they get in to Mail, in
>the folder name/read mark all those messages as read, then combine the
>unread and the read into one folder.
>
>This would be a long job but it would preserve your folders and status
>and if you are moving to mail permanently should only have to be done once.
>
>Sent mail wouldn't be a problem because you would export the Sent Mail
>folder as one folder, even though it might not maintain the "sent" flag.
>It would end up being different from your Mail "sent" folder though. You
>might want to name it "Mail that was sent from PowerMail."
>
>--
>Barbara Needham
Steve Abrahamson
Ascending Technologies
FileMaker 7 & 8 Certified Developer
http://www.asctech.com
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