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annathepiperI have now moved into the phase of trying to get all my old mail transferred over to the Mac. My mail archives go back quite a ways--1996, at least for the stuff that's still in mail-readable format--so this is quite a daunting task.
It's complicated as well by how I apparently have quite a lot of duplicates of mail, having previously saved stuff out into this or that archive file and not having kept track of what was where. And, the various methods I have been trying of porting mail from the PC over to the Mac seem to have different degrees of effectiveness, so I've been having to try a couple at the same time to see which ones actually do the right thing.
I've found duplicates of mail showing up where I previously hadn't had duplicates--time-stamped eight or so hours later than the actual time I sent the mail. So one of the processes I'm using, either the Outlook2Mac program or else the Outlook->Thunderbird on PC->Thunderbird on Mac->Mac mail transfer path, seems to have been doing weird stuff with splitting up non-plain-text and plain text sections of email and defaulting to GMT for the plain text section it spits out.
And, Thunderbird has interesting ideas about how to interpret some of the mail headers, too. I've seen mails come through with mangled address lines. Granted, a lot of this stuff is ancient at this point and it's hardly likely that I'll need to reply to it, but it annoys me on general principle.
So I'll be at this a while, I think. But I needed to do a major spring cleaning on the mail archives anyway, and I think that in the future I will be following![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird's sage example and storing everything in mbox format anyway.
It's complicated as well by how I apparently have quite a lot of duplicates of mail, having previously saved stuff out into this or that archive file and not having kept track of what was where. And, the various methods I have been trying of porting mail from the PC over to the Mac seem to have different degrees of effectiveness, so I've been having to try a couple at the same time to see which ones actually do the right thing.
I've found duplicates of mail showing up where I previously hadn't had duplicates--time-stamped eight or so hours later than the actual time I sent the mail. So one of the processes I'm using, either the Outlook2Mac program or else the Outlook->Thunderbird on PC->Thunderbird on Mac->Mac mail transfer path, seems to have been doing weird stuff with splitting up non-plain-text and plain text sections of email and defaulting to GMT for the plain text section it spits out.
And, Thunderbird has interesting ideas about how to interpret some of the mail headers, too. I've seen mails come through with mangled address lines. Granted, a lot of this stuff is ancient at this point and it's hardly likely that I'll need to reply to it, but it annoys me on general principle.
So I'll be at this a while, I think. But I needed to do a major spring cleaning on the mail archives anyway, and I think that in the future I will be following
solarbird's sage example and storing everything in mbox format anyway.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-12-31 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-31 02:39 pm (UTC)But hey, it needs doing, and I'll have a much neater and more readable archive when it's done. And one that can be read in multiple email programs, not just Outlook!
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