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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Lyle Schofield
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Creating a Mhonarc archive from MS Outlook emailsHi:First -- a tremendous amount of thanks for this tip. I've been struggling to figure out how to get my old Emails out of these Outlook archives, and this trick works great!One question -- when you talk about HTML formatting being lost by Thunderbird, what type of formatting do you mean? The only things that don't seem to translate well are HTML image attachments -- like spliced images -- but I'm mostly getting that in Email advertising which I don't care about so much. The rest of formatting, fonts, color, etc, seem to come across fine.I'm using Thunderbird 0.5 (your message indicates 0.4) -- did it change that much between those versions?
I have not yet tried 0.5, so perhaps that resolved the
problems I experienced. In my case, almost all HTML formatting in the message
body was lost, so that most special characters, formatting, and font changes
were lost.
That struck me as a defect in the conversion routine,
but when I looked at the notes for 0.5 I do not recall seeing
reference made to the conversion routine, so I did not bother to try
upgrading. Also, Netscape appears to use the same conversion routine and I had
the same problems with it. Since Netscape was a much more mature product, I
assumed that if it didn't work in Netscape, then it was unlikely to be fixed in
Thunderbird.
Just curious -- thanks.Side question -- are there any practical limits to the number of messages MHonArc can convert into an archive? I've been testing in batches of 350, and it only takes a few minutes on my laptop. But, if I try to dump thousands of messages in there will I hit some limit of what can be processed? Thanks in advance.-Lyle
Batches of
600 or so only take a few minutes on my klunky old PII-350 PC, so unless there
is some routine that goes wild hogging memory, I suspect it would
not be a problem.
Tim
