On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:17:07 -0400, "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> appears to have written: > >Hi Lyle, > >>I recall there being discussed a limitation on how many messages you >>could import into or have in your email database with PowerMail. Or maybe >>it was the size of the database that is the limit. I've searched my >>archive of powermail-discuss digests, and can find only a reference to a >>2 GB limitation on database size. I've gots tens of thousands of messages >>in Emailer. > >To add to Barbara's great reply... > >I have over 50,000 messages in my PowerMail database, and the database >size is currently less than 350 MB. > >I also bought eMailer when Guy told us to. I encountered lots of >problems converting to PowerMail until I discovered Emailchemy, that is >definitely the way to go.
Thanks, Jim and Barbara! I've downloaded Emailchemy and tried it out, and it converted 80,008 emails (how embarrassing!) with no problems. Did I do it right? I told Emailchemy to use the "Standard Mailbox File" format, then used PowerMail's import to bring the messages in. I created a test user environment (a very nice feature of PowerMail, btw) for the test. All the messages showed up, but lines of text were broken in mid-word when they are OK in the mailbox file, and html emails had their html and images attached instead of inline. Is this normal? PowerMail seems to be able to handle html emails and images just fine when it downloads them from a mail server. Is there a setting I'm missing or a better way to import the email? Maybe the fact that emailer is so clueless about html and images is why those show up as attachments, but it would be nice if the lines got broken in a less clueless way. Thanks in advance, --Lyle
