powermail-discuss Digest #2691 - Friday, September 14, 2007
Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
by "Lyle D. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
by "T.L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread
by "Steve Abrahamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
by "Mikael Byström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
From: "Lyle D. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:14:51 -0600
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:04:54 -0400, "T.L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
appears to have written:
>
>On 9/12/07, at 10:23 AM, Lyle D. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>>Thanks, Jim and Barbara! I've downloaded Emailchemy and tried it out, and
>>it converted 80,008 emails (how embarrassing!) with no problems.
>
>Very interesting! I have several years of messages in Emailer and have
>long figured importing into PowerMail could be more trouble than it was
>worth. Maybe I'll try it now.
>
>Were you able to choose which message folders in Emailer you wanted to
>transfer?
It was actually pretty slick!
I did the Unix mailbox option, like Barbara mentioned. What you get is a
folder (you pick the name and location) that is full of unix mailbox
files. For example, my folder included:
Archived/
Archived/Last Time.mailbox
Archived/This Time.mailbox
Archived/Time Before Last.mailbox
Deleted Mail.mailbox
Digests/
[too many to list here...]
Family/
Family/Mom.mailbox
Family/Sue.mailbox
Family/Sharkey.mailbox
Family.mailbox
>From Unknown Folks.mailbox
In Box.mailbox
Out Box.mailbox
Posts.mailbox
Read Mail.mailbox
Sent Mail.mailbox
Temp.mailbox
Zzyzzx.mailbox
Here, "Archived" is a folder that contains only other folders, named
"Last Time", "This Time", and "Time Before Last". It had no mails in it
that were not in those folders. The email that was in the three folders
is in the three mailbox files listed.
"Family" had two folders in it, so there is a Mom.mailbox, a Sue.mailbox
and a Sharkey.mailbox, but it also had emails in it, so there is also a
Family.mailbox file.
You can, of course, go as deep as you like. The folder structure in
Emailer is mirrored in the folder structure on your Mac, with the emails
in any folder being put into a mailbox file, and folders being put in,
well, folders.
When you go to import your email, PowerMail will for some reason assume
you want to import just the mail from one mailbox. You can do that, by
selecting it from the file selection dialog that comes up, or, if you
want to import a folder (and its subfolders), cancel the file selection
dialog and choose "All e-mail databases from folder" in the "PowerMail
will import" dialog that you will see. When you choose the radio button,
the "Select..." button becomes active, and you can pick the folder you
want.
I picked the top level folder and went out to dinner. When I got back,
all those emails were in PowerMail, in a folder named after the folder I
imported them from. Pretty cool.
One thing you can do is use the opportunity to re-organize your folders!
Move the folders around in the Finder, and that's how they will show up
on PowerMail. So if your "Friends" folder had subfolders named "Tall
Friends" and "Short Friends", you could create new subfolders named "Nice
Friends" and "Creepy Friends", and sort all your friends' mailbox files
into those.
Download the demo and try it! It doesn't disturb your Emailer flles at
all, and if you create a new user environment to play in, you won't
disturb your PowerMail setup, either.
Have fun,
--Lyle
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Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
From: "T.L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:33:35 -0400
On 9/13/07, at 4:14 PM, Lyle D. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>It was actually pretty slick!
>
>I did the Unix mailbox option, like Barbara mentioned. What you get is a
>folder (you pick the name and location) that is full of unix mailbox
>files. For example, my folder included:
Thanks. My Emailer database was one of the main reasons I have kept a
PPC Mac -- that and TypeStyler. I know SheepShaver is supposed to work,
but haven't tried it.
Tom Miller
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"The only time we see the middle of the road is as
we run from side to side." R.O.Clark
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Subject: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread
From: "Steve Abrahamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:07:48 -0500
All,
I seem to recall that this is an issue that's been dealt with, and I've
just run into it myself.
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.
Is there a fix for this?
And does anyone know how Mail handles large amounts of mail? Am going
out of the frying pan and into 2 separate fires, or does Mail handle
lots of mail (and searching on it) quickly and well?
TIA!
Steve Abrahamson
Ascending Technologies
FileMaker 7 & 8 Certified Developer
http://www.asctech.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer
From: "Mikael Byström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:06:00 +0200
Jim Pistrang suggested:
>I also bought eMailer when Guy told us to. I encountered lots of
>problems converting to PowerMail until I discovered Emailchemy, that is
>definitely the way to go.
Not so for people needing to conserve umlauts in places like the email
address, like swedish or german. At least this was true for the version
of Emailchemy purchasable 2 years ago. It might have improved since so I
recommend anyone to try the current version before buying it to see
whether it works fine. Provided you have the need to conserve umlauts of
course.
The best solution for me however was to export with Dan Creviers script
"Export Selected Messages" inside the package available at <http://
fogcity.com/files/Emailer/2.0/DansScripts-97-05-22.hqx>. There's one
caveat and that is you will have problems if you have deleted an
account. If you need a version that can deal with that please contact
me, I don't think it's online, but I should have it somewhere. The
person who modified Dan's script might have it online, but I don't have
that info available right now.
Mikael
Tech facts:
PM 5.5.3 Swedish | OS X 10.4.5 | Powerbook G4/550Mhz | 1GB RAM | 80GB HD
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