Jérôme - Thank you for your work around. I will admit, however, that I do not fully follow the method for changes using Text Wrangler. What do these mean: >Search For: [x] Use Grep
>[x] Muti-File Search (maybe this would be clear if I had a copy of Text Wrangler)? Can other text editors be used? Or is the "multi-file search" that Text Wrangler can do unique (presumably necessary to do a batch change on all the files at once)? Second, does Mail /export/ Read/Unread status? You say Mail ignores Read/Unread status when importing - is this why PowerMail does not appear to export Read/Unread status for Mail? What about the other formats? (Eudora, Unix, Tab Text, etc.) Why doesn't PowerMail export Read/Unread status for these? Thanks. - Winston Weinmann PowerMail Engineering wrote: >Winston Weinmann wrote: > >>In every case PowerMail had this for both messages: >> Status: U > >The "status" header is not a standard one (it is not specified in RFC >2822). I suppose it is used to indicate the status of the message on the >server. It is not set by PowerMail. And mail seems to ignore it when >importing. > >PowerMail can preserve the status (amongst other things) when exporting >using the PowerMail Exchange format, but Mail does not import from this >format. > >There is a workaround, but it requires using TextWrangler: > >- select all the folders and subfolders you want to export in PowerMail >- export "the selected mail folder" (do NOT export "your entire mail >database" as Mail won't import that) >- export them to the "PowerMail Exchange" format (including attachments >if you want) >- in TextWrangler, perform a find and replace regular expression: > Search For: [x] Use Grep > PowerMail Exchange 3\.0\r > Replace With: (leave an empty string here) > > [x] Muti-File Search > Select the folder containing the exported mailboxes, then perform >"replace all" and "save to disk". >- perform another find and replace all regular expression on the same folder: > Search For: [x] Use Grep > ^PMFlags : \d+ \d+ \d+ (\d+) .*$ > Replace With: > X-PM-Status: \1 >- in Mail, import from "Other" and select the folder >- create a Mail rule: > If [any] of > [X-PM-Status] [Does not contain] [7] > (note that you must edit the header list to add [X-PM-Status]) > Perform: > [Mark as read] >- select all the imported mailboxes >- select all the messages >- apply rules from the Message menu > > >Jérôme - CTM Engineering > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > "FABULOUS PRODUCT ! Wonderful ! A real Spotlight Killer ! > I'm now able to locate content in documents that I KNEW was there but > Spotlight couldn't find. FoxTrot Personal Search is far more efficient > and displays a preview of the file when you hiighlight it." > Janie Angus, Nevada > > Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch >---------------------------------------------------------------------
