[Ti] e-mail: I'd rather switch (but I don't want to fight)

[Robert Nicholson]

Whenever you have to deal with Microsoft prorietory pst file format 
it's a nightmare.

When I had to transfer my mail I had to set up an IMAP server on my 
tibook and transfer the mail
the way. The other way is to use Netscape 4 and go that way. This was 
when I want to get my
mail from Outlook PC into Entourage OS X. I haven't had to import into 
Mail.app for a while. I believe
that was a some applescript that took my folders from Entourage which 
is not pst file format to begin with.

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 07:54  PM, Malcolm Hamilton wrote:

> Thankyou to everyone who weighed in on the good, the bad and the ugly 
> of different e-mail programs!
>
> . but now, if you don't mind, I have a follow-up question:  Michael 
> Bigley said that it's "never easy to switch" from a proprietary 
> database app., like Outlook Express, to the a Unix mbox format, like 
> Eudora,  and I'd like to know if this is what he means...
>
> Here's the problem:  when I imported my three year's worth of e-mails 
> from OE into Eudora, all the original 'from' settings became just the 
> one ('Malcolm Hamilton', my name) and all the original 'date received' 
> settings became just one date (the date I imported all the e-mails).  
> Suddenly there's no order to the hundreds of e-mails I've had from my 
> dad over the years!  I can't sort by date, which is the order I'd like 
> them to be in, because they're all the same date.
>
> My first question is this:  Have I overlooked doing something obvious 
> when importing into Eudora (or exporting from OE)... some setting that 
> will fix this?
>
> Or, failing that:  is there not some little app or utility or 
> applescript or whatever out there, that would convert from a 
> proprietary to an mbox format - - and allow me to keep the original 
> dates and 'from's???
> Thank you so much for any advice!
> Malcolm
>
>
>
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