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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: csonni on February 23, 2003, 12:15:00 PM

Title: importing mail & contacts from Mail to Entourage
Post by: csonni on February 23, 2003, 12:15:00 PM

Does anyone have any idea how to do it?

Title: importing mail & contacts from Mail to Entourage
Post by: Paddy on February 23, 2003, 01:00:00 PM

Csonni, AFAIK, it isn't possible with the standard issue version of Mail. However, some nice person has written Apple Scripts to do all sorts of fun things with Mail, including exporting contacts and messages:

http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html

Let us know how they work!

Title: importing mail & contacts from Mail to Entourage
Post by: csonni on February 23, 2003, 01:20:00 PM

Paddy- I tried the script out, but all the email addresses of my contacts were put in the "notes" sections.  Maybe I set something wrong.

Title: importing mail & contacts from Mail to Entourage
Post by: pendragon on February 23, 2003, 01:45:00 PM

Another program that may work is Mail2Entourage.
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcg...id=13605&db=mac

Harv

Title: importing mail & contacts from Mail to Entourage
Post by: csonni on February 23, 2003, 03:52:00 PM

Well, these apps were a great help- especially Mail2Entourage.  Made the transfer easy.  Thanks!  Now I've got to decide what I'm going to use as my default email client.  I like the interface of Entourage.

Title: importing mail & contacts from Mail to Entourage
Post by: Paddy on February 23, 2003, 07:40:00 PM

I like Entourage - having been a long-time OE user, I found the transition pretty painless when I switched to X full-time over a year ago. It has lots of nice features and I find things like it's mail filters easy to set up and effective - though I don't get a lot of spam (touch wood    ). It does a number of things Mail doesn't do - like encode files for Windows (which I MUST have, since I deal with a lot of Windoze users  and particularly some on AOL who don't seem to be able to deal with non-MIME-encoded Word files)

With the addition of a few AppleScripts, (the one to sort my groups by last name instead of first being most useful) it has been great.