why not use PowerMail's simple and elegant filtering option? then you
don't have to manually activate the script but it filters automatically... ?
---marlyse
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Hi all,
I use a custom AppleScript to move a message into a specific folder in
: Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine
From: Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:12:21 -0500
yeah, I have left my opinion already there a while ago - under the
comments as mStudios - it is a lopsided and not very well informed
review, which is too bad.
---marlyse
I just saw that and thought the same.
Of course I do understand that they have to stand behind their review
- on the other hand, I guess they did get a bit embarrassed to see ONLY
comments of opposite viewpoint and none of their own... hopefully it
makes them realize that maybe, just maybe, their
yeah, I have left my opinion already there a while ago - under the
comments as mStudios - it is a lopsided and not very well informed
review, which is too bad.
---marlyse
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http://www.macworld.com/article/132888/2008/04/powermail563.html
yeah, I use PM since the very beginning of Gmail's existence to
retrieve it's mail... not sure what you think the problem is?
---marlyse
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Has anyone set Powermail up to handle Gmail? I've used most of the
possible configurations listed on
how about avoiding any possible problem and don't delete the accounts...
just have them no longer included in the fetch mail settings, I have
some old ones hanging around like that and I moved them simply to the
bottom of my accounts list and don't worry about nor think about them.
---marlyse
it rings a bell... but this was several PM versions ago and might no
longer be an issue (but I can not recall what exactly THIS problem was).
the only thing I DO remember is that you will need to go through your
filters after because what I had happening after I deleted an account
was some
wanted to try this one - sounds very useful - but can't get it to
compile, it gets a hiccup on else set theFolder to folder... any hints
how to get it to compile? (I think I'm good on the line endings so far).
---marlyse
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Here it is. It does
Hallo Hans,
You can NOT sort by threading, only by subject.
To sort by subject click on the top of the list view onto SUBJECT - if
you want to change ascending to descending, clicl onto the little
triangle at the top right of the window.
Let us know if that worked out for you.
If you have
well, as a first - as you cloned your hard drive you obviously still
have that to fall back onto.
second - I wonder why you did not migrate?
third - how about deleting all PM from your Leopard drive (i.e. trash
prefs and the database created etc.) and try again - by copying the
former PM
but on the other hand, I am also a user and also on leopard since last
friday and no problems whatsoever on leopard with powermail - so far.
obviously milage varies and not all is bad and for me right now good.
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes: -
Friday, November
uhm... I said I DO understand :-)
and thus I handle my mail before going to bed, then quit PM (= no recent
mail then).
---marlyse
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Marlyse Comte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 17.10.2007 13:43 Uhr said:
I do understand the issue with the Recent
CTM clearly stated in the past to NOT have PM open when doing a backup
and that this can leave you with a corrupted database. CAN, not
necessarily does.
A while back somebody was so kind to post a little script which will
shut PM down and that you can have SuperDuper run as part of the daily
yes, worked also for me.
---marlyse
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http://homepage.mac.com/jacksim/software/imp41.html
I had it already happen in a similar case that I just had to re-enter
the password in PM - even though it hadn't changed.
---marlyse
I used to use T-Mobile with PM without problems - basically I did
nothing special, just setup to go via Bluetooth to my computer and then,
once the internet connection was established (visible in the Internet
Connect panel), to use PM as usual.
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes:
http;//www.dictionary.com (is your friend) :
American Heritage Dictionary
noise / n.
4th definition : Computer Science : Irrelevant or meaningless data.
---
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
noise / n.
6. Informal. extraneous, irrelevant, or meaningless
thanks Cotty for the suggestion, as I was asking for any ideas how to
solve the problem - I am not doubting that it will work for (most) others.
as I've just completely re-installed my powerbook a couple of months
back - like, FRESH installed, nothing migrated - I SHOULD be good, but
at this pint
Alright, I've done it in the past, but to make sure I'm not doing
something wrong, I looked it up in the PM manual and it states clearly :
launch PowerMail with the option- and command-keys down. This will
invoke PowerMail's built-in recovery facility known as PowerMail First Aid.
I have said so
I had the exact same error today after a computer crash. After the
message it stated also that my Index file was corrupt and if I wanted to
re-index, which I did. The crash cost me todays email but else all seems
now fine, I did not come across any further errors as you describe.
Did you try
there is a little trick of adding an empty space at the beginning to the
second same email address - PM then allows it and it will be correctly
parsed for sending.
---marlyse
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Hello,
when adding a new contact in the address book sometimes i
coming across a really weird bug :
select account A for the email when composing. all good. click on send -
puts it in the outbox (correctly) but while doing so, changes the from
name to a different account (one which I do NOT want to use and have not
selected and is nowhere set in the account
MESSAGE**
Received from Marlyse Comte
on 4/6/07 at 18:07(London time):
coming across a really weird bug :
select account A for the email when composing. all good. click on send -
puts it in the outbox (correctly) but while doing so, changes the from
name to a different account (one which I do
sorry, these 2 options do not exist.
---marlyse
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- how to set the number of characters after which the text is wrapped
- how to set a threaded view in the post center.
Do those settings exist?
was there ANYTHING special about these 2 messages?
if not, the only thought I have on this is that maybe PM has a limit as
to how many BCC's it can take and you have gone past that limit and the
overflow is causing a bug?
quickest solution I could think of is to make groups which contain 1,000
I am sorry to see that you think of this as an error and something that
needs to be fixed because in fact it is a feature request that you have
(and I am sure CTM is taking note of it on their long list of user
requests ;-)
PowerMail is a text email application and that is where it excels at and
as this is actually a funny thread yes, us discussing the fact if
it's a bug or feature is somewhat funny because the person who want's it
printed in the end probably does not care how it is called in the first
place, but on the other hand, 2 people calling something a bug when it's
not
I am not going to big into this thread, sorry.
but one thing I really would like to get understood is that I am saying
as advertised - you are obviously glancing constantly over this point
I am making.
for me it's end of the discussion here, just not worth the effort, and
by that I mean no
1) yes, this would be a limit for you.
2) no
.. sorry, doesn't seem to fit your shoes.
---marlyse
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My current Apple mail database is about 3GB in size. Is the 2048
megabytes a database limit?
2. Is there now the ability to create HTML
The following steps do what you want:
a) select open (received HTML message) in web browser.
b) in your browser save page as WEB ARCHIVE to your desktop
c) in PM select the HTML message and select FORWARD
d) ensure the forward message is set to plain text, now delete
everything except possibly
...
:-)
---marlyse
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Marlyse Comte sez:
a) select open (received HTML message) in web browser.
b) in your browser save page as WEB ARCHIVE to your desktop
c) in PM select the HTML message and select FORWARD
d) ensure the forward message
Thanks to everyone responding on this topic, I think I have figured
out what was going wrong in my case and with the information from
Barbara and the detailed description from Don of when something gets
send to the System Trash etc. I have again a refreshed and rounded
picture of it all
When I was cleaning out the other day old messages and archiving
them, I suddenly realized that my attachment folder is choke full
with attachments from spam email. I daily delete spam and up to now I
thought that when I empty trash attachments get automatically
trashed too... but why then
I DO have that enabled, so it must be something else in addition?
Thanks for your input.
---marlyse
On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Alan Harper wrote:
In the filter Spam: Actions (at least that is what mine is
called) use
Move attachments to trash. Consider using don't index and
others as
Robert - I digress.
Very often when a user comes with a shorthand reaction like you show
below it can very often be traced back to user error, including user
oversight of some sort or manner.
I'm using PM since many years since Claris Emailer and I've had huge
traffic in it and PM is an
I hate it when I find the answer before my message even makes it to the
list, and this after trying a variety of other things :)
But anyhow, it's not a bug, just works differently than expected.
Steps are:
1) export folder e.g. to desktop in mail format
2) in mail select IMPORT mailbox and
netword of computers
and my in-laws which are not very advanced when it comes to computers.
---marlyse
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Am/On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:36:11 -0600 schrieb/wrote Marlyse Comte:
actually, I do backup to networked volumes with superduper!, so
Absolutely. makes me nervous too, especially after trashing by mistake a
140 GB (yes, GB) backup file... looong story, don't ask (if you DO want
to read up how a backup fanatic can get into and out of a highly stupid
situation : http://www.marlyse.com/2006/11/15/recovery/). You CAN
recover such a
actually, I do backup to networked volumes with superduper!, so this
statement is not absolutely correct.
what it does not like to do is to backup remote, external drives (i.e.
not hooked up to your local machine) via network to remote, external
drives, but this is rather a rare scenario.
From using eMA (email Message Archiver) for many years, I switched
recently to DevonThink OFFICE (it's in beta right now). I've been using
DevonThink for several years to store the ton of accumulated stuff, and
their new office version has a great email importer (saves all to RTF
files) and very
thanks tim for the pointer, I will definitely get back to them then on
this issue after some careful tests so I can give them specifics. again,
I use devonthink since years and know of nothing else that can handle
really big databases as well as they do, IMHO.
---marlyse
former
I'm wondering about the foxtrot list if that is alive. I'm sure I was
subscribed but somehow it seems not and so I re-subscribed today but
never received a welcome email etc. and so I'm not sure if the list is
up or what... anyone else on that list?
---marlyse
I used to use an apple script for that, by me it's filed under
'miscellaneous' in the powermails apple script menu. Not sure if it
comes by default or a left over from one of the good souls providing
this list with special goodies. If you don't see it there, check out the
script depository at the
nevermind -
obviously the way to do this IS to go via the export option and then it
exports directly into the apple addressbook. but there is still a
discrepancy - actually, just about 100 addresses less in powermail than
in the apple application and of those 100 there are 10 addresses missing
in
not exactly clear what the problem is.
situation 1 :
you have an outgoing message and added an attachment and now realize you
do not want to send the attachment but only the email but you want to
keep the attachment on your hard drive (for later use).
solution : select the attachment in the
If I go up to the menu bar and click on PowerMail I do not get an option
to select HTML reader
it is MENUBAR = PowerMail = Preferences = HTML Reader
---marlyse
thanks guys, it must be obviously something on my system.
odd, and I will need to ponder a possible solution to fix it.
---marlyse
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Hiro, are you using version 5.5.1 of PM and are you able to open the
first aid window?
Anyone else not able
It's command+option while opening PM... but it's not working for me now,
I'm on PM 5.5.1 - and for the first time in a long time I have the
bolded In Tray even though no unread message in it.
Anyone else having problems opening the first aid window?
Thanks,
---marlyse
aha! ... or so I thought.
but I tried it with delay and still no go, PM opens each and every time
without opening the first aid dialog box.
it IS opt+command or did that change?
Thanks,
---marlyse
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Marlyse Comte / 2006/12/06 / 05:40 PM
former message(s) quotes: -
Marlyse Comte / 2006/12/06 / 09:26 PM wrote:
aha! ... or so I thought.
but I tried it with delay and still no go, PM opens each and every time
without opening the first aid dialog box.
it IS opt+command or did that change?
It's still Opt+Cmd. Trust me
the right moment, it is more than odd and definitely shouldn't be that
hard... and never was, well, I'll go practicing until somebody else
confirms that this is a problem with the latest PM version.
---marlyse
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Marlyse Comte / 2006/12/06 / 09:26 PM
Hi Alan -
Yes - the Yahoo problem was actually quite easy to fix :-)
The solution was simply to log into your Yahoo mail account via a web
browser. And go to 'check mail' or the 'inbox' within the web browser.
Yahoo is having some kind of new email system which is in beta and now
from time to
Who wants to utilize and write to and from a huge databank which
basically is mainly an archive on a minute basis (I get my mail every
few minutes). I know that bites and bytes don't get 'abused' but the
potentiality of a read or write error introduced into a calculation is
there - even if
I do understand the notion, though, even your hard drive isn't big
enough to keep all what you do from all the years past and current on 1
drive. Well, at least not if you in graphics with big images and 3D and
animation etc. - So things have to get archived or tossed or new,
additional hard
receiving suddenly the following error message :
unexpected error on
name/port of incoming mail server'
class='NetC', what=9, when=6,
this is a new error and I am trying to understand what it means.
any pointers?
thanks!
---marlyse
: -
On Thursday, October 12, 2006, Marlyse Comte sent forth:
receiving suddenly the following error message :
unexpected error on
name/port of incoming mail server'
class='NetC', what=9, when=6,
this is a new error and I am trying to understand what it means.
any pointers
It's not the first time I see somebody going up in fire and explosion
with blaming others and threats and all the stuff - but be aware - at
least 90% of the time it's the user's error and not the ones he blames.
I understand that you think that you've unsubscribed from the list, but
you never
Signatures specifically assigned to an account I use often, for example
I only add my name and no quotations, addresses, phone numbers etc.
when I respond to a list - yes, I like it clean and simple and after
seeing somebody's 15 line long information footer it gets boring for me
to glance over
Personally I've not had problems sending Finder level created archives
(zip files) to PC users.
But, I have come ac-cross the situation that when using a PC created web
application (an online photo gallery) was unable to unzip such Mac
generated archives. I do belief it has something to do with
Go :
Menubar
PowerMail
Preferences
General
When quitting PowerMail
File Read Messages in Mail Trash
Delete Messages in Mail Trash that where there for XY Days.
It's not deleting from the Inbox or other Folders, it's filing your read
stuff in the trash when you quit PM and then deletes it from
There exists also an AppleScript called Delete Aged Messages - the one
I have is version 1.2 and I do not know if there is a newer version,
that one is at least 3 or 4 years old. You can probably find it where
all the other PM AppleScripts are located at http://www.ctmdev.com/
support/ -
actually I don't. I do use Spotlight a lot to find stuff I loose on my
HD but that's about it.
---marlyse
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Marlyse Comte said:
No, I'm still a geek and usually keep my machine up to date, which now
is already at 10.4.7 :-)
So have you tried
: -
Marlyse Comte said it like this:
I have another feature
request: that the search window would treat 23.95 as exactly that and
not 23-AND-95 - because when I search for a specific bill it comes up
with way too many results just because it does not see the period as
part of it all
ok, I think I figured out why I got the error message:
a) I launched the patcher from within the mounted disc image.
b) it seems to have patched iPhoto despite the error message, because
when I copied the patcher to the Finder and launched I received the
message that iPhoto had already been
not sure where to report the result to, as it also concerns PM I don't
feel it too off topic to post it here:
1) idea is great
2) did not patch b/c you don't have enough privileges - but the
authorization window never popped up and I have basically full admin
priv's on my machine.
---marlyse
) quotes: -
How about searching for:
Matches the Search Pattern 23.95
Don't the quotes do what you want?
A
Marlyse Comte said at Mon, Aug 14, 2006 3:29 PM -0700:
Next to my standard wish - for those who by chance don't know, it's an
integrated Recent Mail in the current Browser Window
Next to my standard wish - for those who by chance don't know, it's an
integrated Recent Mail in the current Browser Window, just like the Spam
folder is now, but just under the Out Tray - I have another feature
request: that the search window would treat 23.95 as exactly that and
not 23-AND-95 -
you need to manually select the correct database after launching PM.
first, in spotlight do a search on your drive(s) for the correct, i.e.
latest, MESSAGE DATABASE.
go : menubar database switch user environment select the database
located in above step.
good luck.
---marlyse
Mikael - I've never seen you like this, or I do not remember... but it
is as if we are on different planets right now, trying to speak the same
language but fail utterly. I do believe I've explained myself clearly in
the past emails and so did Rick on this subject and thus I do not want
to
camps.
---marlyse
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Marlyse Comte said:
Nice posting. Thank you Rick!
This is the exact reason I'd like to have the RMW integrated into the
browser too.
What reason would that be? What are the benefits of this arrangement? how
would things work
yes, system and library and all. you can make an exact copy of your
drive, a fully bootable sparse image. there are only a few (system)
files it will not copy which are seemingly recommended by apple not to
copy, but nothing that would hinder you to use the backup fully after.
Give it a try - I'm
scripts and schedule it and I can easily make backups over a
network. The other application which works well is R-Sync, just that one
does not have a scheduling solution if I remember correctly.
---marlyse
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Marlyse Comte said:
ince OSX I had so
You know, I'm actually thinking along the lines with Rick. It doesn't
make sense that it just disappeared, if the files contained those
emails, they become part of the file itself. The only time I could think
that they truly went to nirvana is if you never never rebooted since
moving the files
This leads me to believe that perhaps the root of this could be a
single bad email.
I agree strongly with this assumption. The only time I've ever had a
problem with PM was when I had 1 bad HTML message and I could no
longer index and PM would constantly crash and I was not able to rebuild
Setup your account : menubar - setup - accounts.
Thats the place you enter details like your user name and password and
under receiving you put in if it's POP or IMAP account... you then get a
folder in the browser window with that name account and that is your
IMAP folder.
---marlyse
suggestion
did not work until I held down both the option and the command keys. I
appreciate your calling my attention to this maintenance procedure in PM
that I had forgotten about.
Dan
--
Subject: Re: Data Base Errors
From: Marlyse
I use a SmartWrap http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/
4065 and you can set it up for general usage via the Services menu and/
or especially for use in PowerMail.
---marlyse
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One thing that frustrates me is the inability of
Great!
This seemed to have fixed the problem as I received this as a single message.
---marlyse
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Folks,
As you've noticed, we've been having major problems with the PowerMail-
discussion list, while the powermail-discuss-digest and
This explains a lot to me, because I've noticed that sometimes it would
work fine and only check after the PB has fully waken up and other times
it again would error out. Now I'm able to figure out the difference: it
works when I'm on Airport but errors out when I'm hooked back up to the
Please put a [OT] = OFF TOPIC into the subject line, then my filter can
catch this thread and handle accordingly, i.e. automatically trash it ;-)
It's amazing the heated discussions on the various lists, and I am
subscribed to several, and it really does not interest me THAT much even
though I'm
Can we have a poll
about how many IMAP users we have, perhaps?
I don't use it at all.
Long time ago I had a Hotmail account and that was the only instance I
had been slightly interested in it, but with all the spam going to
Hotmail, I lost quickly interest.
---marlyse
time for maintenance:
quit PM. launch PM with option-command keys down - reindex database.
---marlyse
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I had to erase my main drive due to problems unrelated to PowerMail. Re-
installing PowerMail in the new setup I copied over the PM
trash Stuffit and get the latest version of it. If you have, just re-
install it anyways.
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes: -
Same problem here.
I just migrated to a new machine which I updated to 10.4.1, from a mac
running 10.3.9
Now everytime I try to launch PM,
This worked fine! The Message DB shrunk from 1.91GB to 47.5 MB and,
better of all, the messages in the trash folder are now visible.
Can anyone explain this phenomenon?
I assume it had been some caching problem, keeping almost 2 GB of deleted
data in memory and got a hiccup along the way.
In
not sure if you'll find it in 10.2.8 - IF it's available it is in FINDER
- FILE - CREATE ARCHIVE. it makes it easy to .zip a file. if you don't
have that option, just use stuffit or zipit or whatever you use to stuff/
zip files.
former message(s) quotes: -
In an
If you never quit PM all your trashed email will accumulate in the Trash
of PM - it has been times that when I finally quit PM I had more than
4,000 messages accumulated and that will take a while to delete. If you
accumulated 67,000 email, you haven't quit PM in a long time. You can
keep the
Adams
On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:52:43 -0500 Marlyse Comte wrote:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21197
here you go:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21197
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes: -
I have started using iCal again and I would like to use the Invite
feature. I have downloaded the Applescript files for this from the CTM
website (or whereever
To clarify - that runs in the background, I check the mail via PM.
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes: -
MacFreePops 1.5 - that works perfectly for those accounts - I check all
my yahoo and gmail accounts with that. You should find it via VersionTracker.
--marlyse
MacFreePops 1.5 - that works perfectly for those accounts - I check all
my yahoo and gmail accounts with that. You should find it via VersionTracker.
--marlyse
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Just as I thought, but had to make sure of the facts from
the PowerMail users...
This is really upsetting because it means from here forward, for as long
as I care about my archive of email, I must keep my old attachments in Mail.
or do as I suggested:
move all to the PM attachment folder and DELETE the Mail attachment folder.
the links will no longer work, but the
peww, I am glad that you have them 'physically separated from Mail'. the
whole thing makes now much more sense.
I'd like to move all the attachments to PM attachments folder, but will
have to relink them 1 by 1, right?
well, I don't know how you want to re-link attachments in PM - in the
sense
guys and gals - I do believe the original answer was not correctly understood.
the person had said:
I imported from Claris Email-Mail-Powermail, and while my attachments
still are there and linked, PM left them in the Mail Library, did nopt
copy and move them into PM files.
left them in
is it safe to assume that most users have had a trouble-free
conversion or have I missed something there too?!
nah, I think you're safe - but remember your (at least weekly) backup. it
doesn't hurt to be rather safe than sorry :-)
---marlyse
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But I am expert in swiss cheese, and I can affirm there is almost no
holes in gruyère!
LOL, I can affirm that too. Neither has the COMTE cheese :)
---marlyse COMTE
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my life: http://www.marlyse.com
my view: http
Wayne makes a valid point in regards the need of a mailing list. My
husband uses post.office which is for both a regular email server and
list software. URL is http://www.tenon.com/products/post_office/. The
site states Post.Office is a scalable SMTP/POP3/IMAP messaging server
designed to meet
1. Integrate it into the main browser window as a tab. I work in 3-pane
mode, and the idea of retaining the folder list on the left with the
remaining area showing *either* the normal browser view(s) *or* the RMW,
depending on what is required seems to me to be a neater solution than
having two
typo, sorry - make that eMessage Archiver, mentioned in another answer to
your question.
---marlyse
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I use eMail Archiver and I like it.
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes: -
Anybody know of a good way to
using it constantly with good success.
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes: -
hmmm... hasn't been updated since 2003. Have you used it?
Anybody know of a good way to export/archive my 10k+ worth of email
messages into a Filemaker database?
John Carlsen's eMessage
I use eMail Archiver and I like it.
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes: -
Anybody know of a good way to export/archive my 10k+ worth of email
messages into a Filemaker database?
Kind Regards
Manoel Felciano
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