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

[Greg Freemyer]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:48 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> 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.
>
>  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
Recent versions of Outlook Express can work with RFC-822 emails.  (*.eml files)

Maybe you can get that Outlook Express to output the emails into that
format.  From there you have an RFC compliant format and should be
able to proceed to convert to whatever you need.

Greg
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