The Pegasus Mail address book can be converted to many formats using "Dawn, the Address Converter and Manager"
http://mysite.verizon.net/zakharin/software/Dawn/ ... just pick one that MacMail can import.
I am in need of converting a user from a PC(XP) running Pegasus Mail to a Mac(OSX10.5) running MacMail. Is there an effective way to accomplish this? I have use Transend Migrator to convert between different clients on the same platform, but I don't believe it works cross-platform. Thanks in advance for your input.
[quote user="richl"]I am in need of converting a user from a PC(XP) running Pegasus Mail to a Mac(OSX10.5) running MacMail. Is there an effective way to accomplish this? I have use Transend Migrator to convert between different clients on the same platform, but I don't believe it works cross-platform. Thanks in advance for your input.[/quote]
I find the easiest way to do this cross-platform conversion is to get an IMAP4 account. I've had quite a bit of luck with GMail and it looks like a FastMail free guest account might work as well. Can take quite a bit of time to do this though if there is a lot of mail involved. FWIW, I am assuming that MacMail does IMAP4, I've not even seen a Mac in years.
[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]
[quote user="richl"]I am in need of converting a user from a PC(XP) running Pegasus Mail to a Mac(OSX10.5) running MacMail. Is there an effective way to accomplish this? I have use Transend Migrator to convert between different clients on the same platform, but I don't believe it works cross-platform. Thanks in advance for your input.[/quote]
I find the easiest way to do this cross-platform conversion is to get an IMAP4 account. I've had quite a bit of luck with GMail and it looks like a FastMail free guest account might work as well. Can take quite a bit of time to do this though if there is a lot of mail involved. FWIW, I am assuming that MacMail does IMAP4, I've not even seen a Mac in years.
Yes, it does IMAP4. I thought of just resending the mail from Pegasus, then have MacMail receive it, but unfortunately, there are approx. 20 mail folders with way too many messages in each to have to rehandle all those messages. I also thought of possibly converting to Mozilla on the PC, then exporting to Mozilla on the Mac, then importing into MacMail, but I'm not sure if that will work correctly.
[/quote]You don't need to send email to yourself. Simply open an IMAP account -- there are even free ones (Gmail, AOL, Bluebottle, Fastmail, and various others) --then:
1. Set up that account in Pegasus Mail.
2. Create an IMAP mailfolder on the server - let's call it, for example, "Archive"
3. In Pegasus Mail drag your messages from their local folders to "Archive". (Those messages will then be up on the server.)
4. Set up the same account in Apple Mail. When you do you will see all the remote mailfolders. (It's "Apple Mail", BTW, not "Mac Mail" which is a mail service not a program.)
5. Drag the messages from "Archive" to local mailfolders inside Apple Mail.
That procedure is one option. Another is as follows.
Pegasus mail is capable of storing mail in Unix mbox format. Make a new mailfolder inside Pegasus Mail and, when you do, specify that you want Unix format. Drag (or copy) the messages you wish to move to this new mailfolder. Close Pegasus mail and find the file corresponding to the mailfolder on the hard-drive -- it should be easy, as it will have the extension .MBX.
Copy that mbox file over to the Mac and import it into Apple Mail with Apple Mail's import wizard.
Hello
I have created a new mail folder in Unix format but cannot find it on the hard drive..
Also is there a way of copying the address book. I am really struggling with this.
Thanks for your help.
OK I have found the file and imported into Apple Mail. However when I click on it nothing happens. It has the figure of 144 next to it, so assume that is all the emails but cant access them.
