[pmmail-list] Exporting fromm PMM to Outlook?

[Don Buska]

Wow John.  Will need to read that through a few dozen times, but will look
into it.  At least it's a step in the right direction.  I guess I could also
create some form of script file that would grab the headers and save each
email message using the "subject" as the file name.  At least then they
would be eaier to reference as plain text files in the future.

Thanks again,

Don

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bridges [mailto:jbridges@peekpoke.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:36 PM
To: pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Subject: [pmmail-list] Exporting fromm PMM to Outlook?


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 04:56:28 -0800, Don Buska wrote:

>I too would be interested in such a conversion.  I have many-many years
>worth of PM Mail I'd love to convert over.  I still use PMMAIL for my
>private accounts on both OS/2 and W2K.  Like Sorin we have recently started
>migrating the servers here at work to WIN2003 Servers.  No NetBeui on these
>babies and since OS/2 has lagged so far behind in the networking arena I
>will no longer be able to use it here at work much, except for standalone
>and general internet stuff.

I gave a copy of all my past archives for a mailing list to a friend.

Here are the steps he used to take PMMail messages and import them into
Outlook:

After looking at a few message headers, I saw that your msgs were posted by
PMMail, so I grabbed a copy; looked at PMMail's forum; grabbed The BAT!;
imported; exported to UNIX mailbox; grabbed Eudora; imported; ran Outlook
Express; imported from Eudora; exported to Outlook; ran Access; imported
from
Outlook.... whew! But, I now have 15,537 messages in an Access database.

Here was his command line for using "The Bat!"

 thebat.exe
/IMPORTU="targAct";FOLDER="targFld";IN=c:\msgs\glpro2003.fld\*.msg

You have to use the command line with "The Bat!", if you use the import
dialog, it cannot handle a large number of messages.