Hi sd,
> after trying out The Bat! for a while, i've decided to change
> over to it from PocoMail. this will involve importing a great
> deal of mail; however, when i go to
I've just done that not too long ago. Yes, it took me hours (for
I was from Outlook Express), but it was worth it.
> the only option that does anything is the Mailbox Import
> Wizard option. the three "From" options don't do anything at
> all...
Strange, I found the [Import from Unix Mailboxes] option to be
the most reliable one.
> i'm guessing my best bet now is to export to an RFC822 text
> file and then import via the command line... if anybody has
> tried this or has a better suggestion please let me know. the
> Poco mail files are .mbx files; i wouldn't expect it to be
> this difficult to import them...
Isn't .mbx file standard unix format? Have you tried to open a
.mbx with a text editor? Is it in plain text? You may try to
import it with the [Import from Unix Mailboxes] option first. If
it's indeed in plain text, but TB! wouldn't take it as a unix
mailbox, then there're some format issues to address, but it
shouldn't be hard.
The major problem with converting mail to TB! involves with the
"received date/time", unless the source file start each message
with a line like the following:
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 2 23:56:35 2000
where date/time has to be in the exact order: day of week,
month, day of month, time, and year. Otherwise TB would display
the wrong date. (Note this "From" line is different from the
"From:" field in the header, where there's a colon following the
keyword "From".) If the line is missing, TB would use the
date/time of import for it, so all the messages would end up
with the same received date/time.
There's another similar problem is for sent mail. Some email
programs do not go by the standard (like earlier versions of
Eudora) for the "Date:" field. It should be like this:
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:58:23 -0500
where the order is different from the above example: day of
week, day of month, month, year, time and time zone.
In short, if the .mbx files you have isn't in plain text unix
format, you'll have to find a way to export it as such. Then we
can go from there. If you run into the date/time conversion
trouble I described above, you may use a editor with macro
ability to correct them. I still have my Ultraedit macros with
me, should you need them.
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Best regards,
Ming-Li mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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