Rick Lecoat said: >Do you mean an import back into a newer version of Mail or a newer >version of Powermail?
Well, I wanted to test (and did) whether Mail itself would retain the read / unread status, which it didn't exporting and reimporting to Mail 2.1 at least. So actually it most likely don't have to be another version in order to rely on the test results. But what my personal results shows are that Mail does not seem to save the read / unread status in the mbox file itself. If you look inside the Mail mbox export, you see .plist files and .emlx files. In none of these there is anything indicating read / unread status. So if the Mail mbox format does not save this status, how can we ask from PowerMail to regard this status? I could see a solution to this if PowerMail gave full scripting support for exporting, but a few versions back at least it didn't. Anyone else tried lately? A script could move all unread messages to a new folder and export to a separate file. It would be easy to write a script that does the first part, but it would leave the user to export more folders manually. At the moment, because of the format, this is the price you'd have to pay. As far as I can tell, at least. One other option would be if ANY of the other formats PowerMail can export to would retain this status and that Mail both could read this format and detect its read status? Anyone know of such a format? Mikael Technoids: PM 5.6 build 4497 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.5 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB
