Remo, I'm beginning to think you're correct! Is there any reason I shouldn't count on be able to do this with Outlook:mac 2001, .pst folders and my Exchange server for the forseeable future?! sgr
> From: Remo Del Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:25:22 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Problems with .mbox files > > On 8/12/04 4:57 PM, Allen Watson deftly typed out: > >> Switch to your alternate identity; drag the archive file from the desktop >> back into Entourage (or onto the Erage dock icon); say Yes to importing. It >> will show up as a new folder in your folder list. This method does retain >> the read/unread status, actual received time, and so on. It may not retain >> category; it certain will not if the new identity has no categories defined. >> I have not tried it after defining categories, but I doubt it will work. > > I don't believe this method will save the information Stephen wants to save. > The MBOX files Entourage creates contain no status information or category > assignments, so they can't possibly be retained. And Entourage's "Received" > time is the time the message is added to the Database, not the time in the > topmost Received header. That's the reason you and Barry were working on > that script to reassign the Received time. > > I don't think that what Stephen is asking for is possible without an > AppleScript that saves that information in a secondary export file that can > then be read in by another script to assign the values to the newly imported > messages. I still have to question the necessity of it all, though... > > -Remo Del Bello > > -- > "You need to focus on the neglected food groups: The whipped groups, the > congealed group, and the chocolotastic." > - Dr. Nick Riviera on The Simpsons > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
