powermail-discuss Digest #2928 - Sunday, December 21, 2008
Re: Exported mail databases cannot be imported
by <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Exported mail databases cannot be imported
From: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:32:13 +0900
From: "cheshirekat" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:48:52 -0700
>While PM is my email client of choice, I never fully
>trust any email program so I made a backup and began exporting specific
>folders. But it wasn't clear to me which was the best export option for
>wanting to import into a new user environment. So, I have only exported
>a few folders. Then I decided to wait to hear comments from other PM
>users before deleting the folders in PM.
I'll have to play around with that second user environment. Maybe I can
create a new environment using the exported message databases and
recover the mail that way. It's worth looking into.
>I would check that PM didn't flatten your folder
>and move all messages in subfolders to the parent folder. (I'm sure you
>already did this, but thought I'd try to offer something.)
I did check for this, and it seems they were not moved into the parent
folder. The importing process takes some time for large- ish imported
databases, so I believe the messages are being imported -- I just can't
seem to find them. If I could remember anything about those older
messages, maybe I could try to search for them. I need to wrack my
memory for that, though.
>I glanced through the "manual" regarding backups, archives and exports.
>The only thing I found noteworthy is the suggestion to use text-based
>options of the Export function. This made me concerned about what
>happens to HTML messages, so I didn't want to proceed with exporting
>messages older than a year to a new user environment. The manual could
>provide some clarity but it doesn't. When I did not find more details
>when performing the different operations, it left me to uneasy. So I
>hope you get a solution to your issue because it may also help me to
>continue or make a change of plans.
I'll look into the things mentioned above. I'm fairly confident the
mail is still around (at least in the form of exported message
databases), but getting it back into my main user environment is proving
a challenge.
Tim
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