| Re: Issues in PowerMail [message #875 is a reply to message #874] |
Fri, 14 June 2019 22:39   |
Jo Dorais
Messages: 6
Registered: June 2019
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Hi Zvi,
Thank you for this. Not that I quite GET it, but I think I just have to try it and see. I did love what I read about the capabilities of MailMate - seems right up my alley, if only I can get my existing old mail into it. (probably should take this opportunity to purge a lot!)
> Hi Jo,
> This is from MailMate manual:
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> If you are migrating from a POP3 only email client then you can try the
> "File ? Import Messages..." menu item in MailMate. You are then
> asked to chooses files or folders to import, and you also need to
> specify an IMAP mailbox to be used as the root for the imported
> messages. MailMate imports the following:
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> single messages in standard RFC822 format (.eml, .msgd)
> single messages in Apples extended standard RFC822 format (.emlx)
> messages within mbox files (.mbox)
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> MailMate uses names of mbox files and names of folders in the hierarchy
> scanned to create a hierarchy of IMAP mailboxes.
> Note that the file extensions noted above are currently hardcoded, i.e.,
> MailMate ignores all other files.
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> MailMate is insanely configurable and the developer is extremely
> responsive. I can't rave enough about it.
>
> Zvi
>
> On 14 Jun 2019, at 12:19, Jo wrote:
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>> At precisely 9:40 AM on 6/14/19, Zvi Biener caused a myriad of
>> electrons to hula in cyberspace with the following:
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>>> If you are looking for other options, I'd also recommend MailMate. It
>>> is
>>> extremely highly configurable, and works with SpamSieve flawlessly.
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>> Thank you - how did it work for importing all your old mail? It seems
>> like maybe I'd have to first export everything to apple's mail and
>> then somehow convert to IMAP? I've been continuing with POP all this
>> time. I don't want to lose everything.
>>
>>
>> Jo
>> ?????????????????? ?????????????????? ??????????????????
>> How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?
>> ...George Carlin
>>
>>
Jo
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