[ale] OT: Know any elderly-Mac wizards?*

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:48 -0400, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> * I don't care about the wizards' ages; the computer is an iMac about 7 years old.
> 
> I'm having a $%^&*!! of a time exporting my wife's e-mail and address book 
> from Outlook Express 5.0 in MacOS-8.6 to anything else! Exported and 
> database files don't look like clean matches to the MsWin versions for the 
> OE-5/6. I've gotten to the point I can probably convert the address book 
> semi-manually with a spreadsheet, but I've absolutely no idea how to 
> capture the mail files.

	Connect to an imap server and move the mail messages up to it?  That's
pretty much the method of last resort for me.

> I am headed for Thunderbird in Vista (more $%^&*@@!!), but if I get them 
> into any recent MsWin app, I can probably finish the job.

> Any clues or good sources of this type info?

> Thanks.

>   - John

	Mike
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