On or near 11/26/01 4:23 PM, Harry (lists) at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> Or you can use the old (but still working) AOL Address Book Export utility:
>
> http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Eng
> lish-North_American/Macintosh/Application_Updates/Claris_Emailer/Claris_Emai
> ler_2.x/AOL3_0Addressextractor.sea.bin
>
> Follow instructions - it's pretty easy.
I was trying to remember where that came from, Harry. Emailer days seem a
dim memory to me now, alas!
For messages already downloaded, try to find this program:
Maol 4.0 - The premiere graphical online services, America Online? and
eWorld?, are terrific for the way they let you share with others
worldwide. But after downloading your email, it can be a drag having to
launch their huge applications just to read it. mAOL will turn those
custom mail files into text any program can read, help you organize them
with descriptive filenames, and sort them into preferred folders. You can
view each file immediately, save it onto a disk, or import it into a word
processor. It��s true you can setup AOL or eWorld to save your mail as
text, but that gives you a bunch of files all named by their sometimes
useless ��Subject:�� line and missing all of the fonts and styles the author
used. And if you later double-click these files, you��ll launch AOL or
eWorld all over again anyway!
As you can see by the mention of eWorld, this, too, is an old application.
But it should still work. With a little effort, it might be possible to
concatenate these into a kind of mailbox file that you could drag and drop
into entourage, where it would become a folder of messages.
An alternate method could be developed with an AppleScript: change creator
type to "OPIM" and file type to "M822", and it becomes an Entourage message
file (it is basically a kind of text file). However, its internal format is
slightly off for Entourage. AOL has headers like this:
Subject: Allen and Peggy
Sent: 1/14/97 8:58 PM
Received: 1/14/97 10:48 PM
From: Linda Lego, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peggy Baldwin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The dates need to be reformatted into an "offset from Greenwich time"
format, as below (set for Pacific Standard Time, offset 7 hours); the word
"Sent" has to be changed to "Date":
Subject: Allen and Peggy
Date: 14 Jan 1997 20:58:00 -0700
Received: 14 Jan 1997 22:48:00 -0700
From: Linda Lego, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peggy Baldwin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For your own outgoing messages there may be no From header so you would need
to add it, e.g.:
From: Allen Watson, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As far as I can tell, the Received header just gets ignored, and the message
gets a received date of the time you drag and drop it into an Entourage
folder. I'm not sure anyone would really want to do this in this way. The
script <could> edit the dates and header name, and change the file and
creator types on every AOL message file, but then you'd have to drag them
one by one (or in batches) into Entourage, and all the received dates would
be wrong.
However, I don't think it would take a heck of a lot more to take a folder
or bunch of message files and combine them into a Unix mailbox (mbox) file,
which Entourage recognizes and can import as a folder. It might be a
worthwhile project. How many folks out there have bunch of old AOL messages
they want to import into Entourage? An AOL message file, if I recall, has a
file type of "FCIM" and a creator code of "MMAN", which you could search for
in Sherlock's custom options.
I just found an old Stuffit archive full of several hundred that I may want
to convert for myself. So this will be something I may work on.
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