powermail-discuss Digest #2691 - Friday, September 14, 2007 Re: Migration from Claris Emailer by "Lyle D. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Migration from Claris Emailer by "T.L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread by "Steve Abrahamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Migration from Claris Emailer by "Mikael Byström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer From: "Lyle D. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:14:51 -0600 On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:04:54 -0400, "T.L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> appears to have written: > >On 9/12/07, at 10:23 AM, Lyle D. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>Thanks, Jim and Barbara! I've downloaded Emailchemy and tried it out, and >>it converted 80,008 emails (how embarrassing!) with no problems. > >Very interesting! I have several years of messages in Emailer and have >long figured importing into PowerMail could be more trouble than it was >worth. Maybe I'll try it now. > >Were you able to choose which message folders in Emailer you wanted to >transfer? It was actually pretty slick! I did the Unix mailbox option, like Barbara mentioned. What you get is a folder (you pick the name and location) that is full of unix mailbox files. For example, my folder included: Archived/ Archived/Last Time.mailbox Archived/This Time.mailbox Archived/Time Before Last.mailbox Deleted Mail.mailbox Digests/ [too many to list here...] Family/ Family/Mom.mailbox Family/Sue.mailbox Family/Sharkey.mailbox Family.mailbox >From Unknown Folks.mailbox In Box.mailbox Out Box.mailbox Posts.mailbox Read Mail.mailbox Sent Mail.mailbox Temp.mailbox Zzyzzx.mailbox Here, "Archived" is a folder that contains only other folders, named "Last Time", "This Time", and "Time Before Last". It had no mails in it that were not in those folders. The email that was in the three folders is in the three mailbox files listed. "Family" had two folders in it, so there is a Mom.mailbox, a Sue.mailbox and a Sharkey.mailbox, but it also had emails in it, so there is also a Family.mailbox file. You can, of course, go as deep as you like. The folder structure in Emailer is mirrored in the folder structure on your Mac, with the emails in any folder being put into a mailbox file, and folders being put in, well, folders. When you go to import your email, PowerMail will for some reason assume you want to import just the mail from one mailbox. You can do that, by selecting it from the file selection dialog that comes up, or, if you want to import a folder (and its subfolders), cancel the file selection dialog and choose "All e-mail databases from folder" in the "PowerMail will import" dialog that you will see. When you choose the radio button, the "Select..." button becomes active, and you can pick the folder you want. I picked the top level folder and went out to dinner. When I got back, all those emails were in PowerMail, in a folder named after the folder I imported them from. Pretty cool. One thing you can do is use the opportunity to re-organize your folders! Move the folders around in the Finder, and that's how they will show up on PowerMail. So if your "Friends" folder had subfolders named "Tall Friends" and "Short Friends", you could create new subfolders named "Nice Friends" and "Creepy Friends", and sort all your friends' mailbox files into those. Download the demo and try it! It doesn't disturb your Emailer flles at all, and if you create a new user environment to play in, you won't disturb your PowerMail setup, either. Have fun, --Lyle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer From: "T.L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:33:35 -0400 On 9/13/07, at 4:14 PM, Lyle D. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >It was actually pretty slick! > >I did the Unix mailbox option, like Barbara mentioned. What you get is a >folder (you pick the name and location) that is full of unix mailbox >files. For example, my folder included: Thanks. My Emailer database was one of the main reasons I have kept a PPC Mac -- that and TypeStyler. I know SheepShaver is supposed to work, but haven't tried it. Tom Miller .................................................. "The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side." R.O.Clark ................................................... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread From: "Steve Abrahamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:07:48 -0500 All, I seem to recall that this is an issue that's been dealt with, and I've just run into it myself. I'm trying to move an account over to Mail (partially in an effort to dodge the 2 gig limit that looms on the nearing horizon), and when I drag a folder out to the Desktop, and then import it into Mail, all the mail comes in as unread. Is there a fix for this? And does anyone know how Mail handles large amounts of mail? Am going out of the frying pan and into 2 separate fires, or does Mail handle lots of mail (and searching on it) quickly and well? TIA! Steve Abrahamson Ascending Technologies FileMaker 7 & 8 Certified Developer http://www.asctech.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Migration from Claris Emailer From: "Mikael Byström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:06:00 +0200 Jim Pistrang suggested: >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. Not so for people needing to conserve umlauts in places like the email address, like swedish or german. At least this was true for the version of Emailchemy purchasable 2 years ago. It might have improved since so I recommend anyone to try the current version before buying it to see whether it works fine. Provided you have the need to conserve umlauts of course. The best solution for me however was to export with Dan Creviers script "Export Selected Messages" inside the package available at <http:// fogcity.com/files/Emailer/2.0/DansScripts-97-05-22.hqx>. There's one caveat and that is you will have problems if you have deleted an account. If you need a version that can deal with that please contact me, I don't think it's online, but I should have it somewhere. The person who modified Dan's script might have it online, but I don't have that info available right now. Mikael Tech facts: PM 5.5.3 Swedish | OS X 10.4.5 | Powerbook G4/550Mhz | 1GB RAM | 80GB HD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of powermail-discuss Digest