[kent m]

how to?

any advice? "Mail" in osX only seems to want to import from "Outlook Express" (in the Microsoft realm) and... well... any advice?

thanks,
Kent M

[ 07-28-2001: Message edited by: kent m ]

[[email protected]]

???

what program are you trying to import from?

mail uses standard mailbox format, just like eudora, netcape, etc.

i drug my eudora mailboxes into a subfolder in my mail folder and that worked well.

[jfdonahue]

Go to Apple's OS X software download area and download Mal Import scripts. It will import your mail.

[kent m]

Hi ho.

Dragging didn't seem to work for me. I think I was trying to drag from the desktop though. You know, drag the mail folders onto the desktop, drag the folder into mail.

Importing from Entourage.

thx,
Kent

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Originally posted by [email protected]:
<STRONG>???

what program are you trying to import from?

mail uses standard mailbox format, just like eudora, netcape, etc.

i drug my eudora mailboxes into a subfolder in my mail folder and that worked well.</STRONG>

[kent m]

thanks, I'll check it out.

regards,
Kent M

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Originally posted by jfdonahue:
<STRONG>Go to Apple's OS X software download area and download Mal Import scripts. It will import your mail.</STRONG>

[kent m]

The import script did the trick... generally. There was an error during the import and many of my sub-folders were placed loose in the 'import folder'.

Which leads to my next question: Why is it so difficult to organize folders in 'Mail'? It really seems to be a bitch to put folders inside of other folders, etc...

Thanks for the advice on the import scripts, though. :-)

~Kent

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Originally posted by jfdonahue:
<STRONG>Go to Apple's OS X software download area and download Mal Import scripts. It will import your mail.</STRONG>

[kennedy]

Originally posted by [email protected]:
<STRONG>???

mail uses standard mailbox format, just like eudora, netcape, etc.

i drug my eudora mailboxes into a subfolder in my mail folder and that worked well.</STRONG>

This is oversimplified, in general.

Eudora sorta uses the std format... it relocates all the attachments out of the mailboxes into a separate folder. Netscape sorta uses a std format, adding in some important header info into "dead space" in the std format.

Anyway, I've never fully succeeded in importing my reams of Eudora email into Apple Mail. The Mail Import scripts seem to entirely ignore the Attachments directory. And dragging results in files that are not recognized by Mail.

If anyone has gotten their Eudora mail over with attachments intact, I'd love to hear how. If anyone had to work harder than "just drag it", but got it to work, I'd love to hear how.

Thanks!

[JeffZPgh]

I'd love to hear of a way to import from Microsoft Outlook for Windows, if anybody's done it. All the mail I saved for years on my PC has been sitting useless on my iMac for months.

Jeff