On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Mark James wrote:
Entourage is the only one that properly imports emailer. But it
sucks. A
huge bummer is no random signatures. I have been traveling, but will
probably be trying MailSmith next, I am going to import Emailer
"through"
entourage" and see how Mailsmith works for my work style. Entourage is
hard to get used to, and not very efficient.
I may have worked on this issue with you already, so forgive me if
this is a repeat.
Did you try exporting your Mail email as mbox files? From there you
can use Mail.app's Import Mailboxes, selecting "other" as the type
and import the mbox files into Mail.
I know I worked on this with someone, and they had issue with the
first line of the Mbox file as exported by Emailer, containing an
incorrect date. I looked into that (but don't think I gave them the
heads up) and I think (but could very well be entirely wrong) that
the first line in these cases is supposed to carry some unique mail
ID strings, and that out of the context of a mail server, that first
line no longer serves a purpose. So that incorrect date should be
safe to ignore as I don't think that first line is going to be paid
attention to anyway.
The mbox format is supposed to start the email with From_ (From
followed by a space character), and continue until the next From_ or
until the end of the file. So that first line containing nothing more
than invalid data should be ignored by the utility that is used to
read back in the mbox file (Mail.app in this case). I believe
Eudora's mbox format did something similar by putting some info into
the first line of the file.
Of course, I could be remembering the issue wrong, and the incorrect
date wasn't in the first line, but rather was in the date contained
in the mbox header From_ line. In which case, that *might* cause a
problem if that date is referenced in any way during import. However,
it may not be as the email headers should still contain the correct
email date strings, and Mail.app (or whatever is doing the importing)
may refer to those lines for the message date info.
In other words, I'd give it a whirl and see what happens before
nixing it as a possible way to import Emailer mail into Mail.app
without access to Classic (since Mail.app requires starting Emailer
to do the import, thus anyone on an Intel machine would not be able
to do the import).
Of course, the Export to mbox from Emailer may be more tedious then
it is worth if you have too many folders to deal with. If that is the
issue, then I'd look at whatever that email archiving tool is that
others here have reported using (not eMessageArchiver, although in
theory that could be made to work as well, you could import
everything into eMA, and then add a new calculated field that will
create a correct mbox version of the message, and then use FMP's
ability to export data to dump out said field of all records). I seem
to have a mental blank on what that other app's name is. I know it is
shareware for $25 or something like that.
-chris
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