New Internet Computer

[Peter]

I hooked up our iMac 500 to the internet (because we have been hit by viruses on the G4 667, and because 100s of thousand of $$ of business go through that computer)  now I need to switch our old outlook files over to OS X.2.3 mail- any advice?

also need to get the address book transfered

Help!

Thanks
PM

[Diana]

Hi Peter,

When you say "hit by viruses" does that mean your G4 is infected with a virus?

If your concern is that you are getting lots of e-mail that is carrying a virus, then removing your G4 from the Internet isn't going to stop these. When you get the older machine hooked up and collecting e-mail, it will be collecting from the same mailbox the other one was. That mailbox will still be holding those viruses for you. If you actually have a Mac virus, you might get a writeup in the news..

Please clarify what you mean by "hit by.." If you have some of these virus carrying messages where we can see the full headers, then we may be able to discover who is sending them. If it is someone you know, then calling them may help. If it is a stranger, notifying their ISP may help. The SWEN virus is making lots of people angry and some ISP that have turned a blind eye up to this point are beginning to be more proactive and alerting the customers who have infected machines.

see ya

[kelly]

Yeah Peter, what Diana said.

You'd still be drinking from the same Trough. (Farm Analogy).

See about contacting your ISP to filter some of that out.

And look into setting up Mail Rules to Filter also.

You and many others are feeling the effects.

But still you're not in any danger of contracting a virus.

On any of your macs.

[Peter]

Ok- the main reason is not because we were recently got a virus (we had one in Dec. 2001- Erased the HD and it was fine)  but to prevent any chance of anything being corrupted in any way.

As I said 100s of 1000s of $$ of business go through the G4, so we just find it safer to prevent it from being in any danger at all (we feel that thats a lot of $$ being handled)

I realize that Mac viruses are rare, but we don't want to take any chances (I'm trying to convert them from OS 9.1 to X.2, and I think that this is the easiest way.

so do you have any advice on my original post?

thanks
Peter

[bobw]

Open Mail, go to the File Menu to Import Mailboxes.

[Peter]

thanks,

tryed that, but Mail says something about "mail did not complete importing the mailboxes, but you may do it later"  or something like that as son as I select the old mail file

thanks
peter