Help with importing apple mail to entourage on tiger!

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atrauben

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I want to import apple mail to entourage, but tiger does not create mbox files, and without these mbox files entourage can't receive these email messages I want to import. This is especially a problem with new folders I've created since I got Tiger and also the data on the mbox files in the already created folders was not updated once I got Tiger. Any suggestions, scripts, workarounds??

Thanks,
Anne
anne@wholehealth.net
 
Well, Tiger's Mail uses a new format, since they want Spotlight to index E-Mails... Seems like the old problem, really. E-Mail applications have _all_ the possible means to _import_ Mail, but fail to export them properly or at all... Sorry to say this: I don't know of a way to do what you're looking for... :/
 
Since this is an old thread, i don't know if anyone still reads it.. anyhow, this is a timeconsuming "solution", but it does the job:

1) For each message in Mail, chose Save As.. and save the file using Format: Raw Message Source.
2) Open the file in a texteditor, select all and copy it
3) Open Script Editor, create a new file and paste your selected text in it.
4) In Script Editor, choose Save As.., select File Format: text, select Line Endings: unix(LF).
5) The file created by Script Editor can be imported into Entourage by import, text file, mbox-format file.

It works, although slightly boring when you have lots of old mail messages...

Should anyone know of a way to fix this problem better, I would be happy to know!

- Andreas
 
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