[X Newbies] Apple Mail

[cricket]

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 4:58 PM, Grégoire Seither wrote:

> No, I create a new account in Preferences since sometimes I need to 
> send mail under my business identity and not under my personal name... 
> but both accounts have the same settings, both use the same ISP... 
> except for the name. When I do this and try to modify the settings for 
> one of the accounts Apple Mail sends me a warning :
>
> >Incorrect directory
> >/Users/gregwah/Library/Mail/POP-dingo at mail.club-internet.fr is 
> already in use by >“CreateX Limited

A couple ways you could handle this:

- Leave the Full Name field blank and enter something like this in the 
Email Address Field:

John Doe <jdoe at apple.com>, Jonathan Doe <jdoe at mac.com>

- Leave the second account always configured, but either deactivate it 
or turn off automatic fetching for the second account (both prefs are 
in the Advanced tab).

>> The support is there on the Mail side to do this via Applescript.
>
> No, it will import messages and calendars, but not the accounts, rules 
> and signatures from Entourage... I've tried it numerous times.

Via Applescript, only, not using the Import Mailboxes command. Sadly, 
most other email clients aren't scriptable enough to support scripting 
the data from rules and signatures. So, Mail has the support to do this 
via Applescript, but it's not as useful as it could be due to the lack 
of support from other clients. Doing such an import would involve some 
reverse engineering of proprietary data formats.

>>> - Importing a tab delimited text file into the Address Book (or some 
>>> kind of gimmick that would convert my present excel address sheet 
>>> into something Adress Book could import.
>>
>> Use the script called Import Addresses.scpt on your hard drive:
>
> No again, it will import the address book from entourage but it will 
> not accept a tab delimited text file. My address book used to be in 
> Day-to-Day, when i switched to Mac OS X I wanted to import my 
> contacts... but Address Book only accepts LDIF format and Day-t--day 
> can only import to tab-delimited text... so I need a script that will 
> convert my tab delimited file into something that Apple Mail can 
> import.

Address Book will also import vCards (via drag and drop) if Day-to-Day 
supports vCards. There is no generic tab-delimited importer in Address 
Book or the script.

> No, when I move a great number of messages from a folder to another 
> (for example when i do my monthly sorting and cleaning of my "Sent 
> messages" box) Apple Mail will slow down to a crawl and typing will be 
> jumpy while the message "indexing message 189 of 3578" appears in the 
> status bar. I have almost 2 Gigs of messages, remember....

You are probably pushing the limits with 2 gigs of email. Other than 
keeping more mailboxes with a smaller set of messages (and using 
multiple selection if you want to see multiple mailboxes at a time), I 
don't really have a good suggestion here other than trying out a more 
high-end email client like Mailsmith or Entourage.

- cricket

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