Title says a lot. I am converting my desktop system to Macintosh. By and large, I am doing fine. However, the address book issue is vexing. A few comments:
It’s a new eMac, using Jaguar with full updates.
I cannot simply download O.E. for Mac, it only runs in OS-9 or OS-8. Useless to me in this OS version.
Cut and paste is not really an option, the volume is titanic.
Thoughs? Solutions? I still am running both platforms but by week’s end hope to have A) transferred quite a few photos out of that PC, and
B) Removed all WordPerfect files, and
C) Transferred the Address Book.
Oh- forgot to add this. I am reading up on Entourage- what is Exchange ? And, is Entourage the way to go with this, or is there a more elegant solution? Mac Mail “feels” enough like O.E. that if I can do the address thingy I might go with that.
Otherwise, since I am starting clean on this machine, anyone have mail software for Mac’s that they adore?
I THINK (and I’m sure my mistakes will be corrected swiftly), that you need to import your contacts into “Address Book”, not “Mail” (I’m pretty sure “Mail” gets the info from “Address Book”).
Also, couldn’t you just use the last version of O.E. for Mac (OS 9.x), and let it run under classic mode (although, I must say that I love Mail. Very easy to set up and use).
Didn’t work at all, it created 4 files within Address- none of which had the proper information.
I don’t want to run anything under Classic 9.0 mode, but I may have to install Outlook Express for 9.0, then import the addresses and THEN open Mac Mail and import the files into it from within Mac OS.
Can’t see doing this, but lacking any other options, I will have to do so.
Eudora is the best email program for either Mac or Windows, unless you’re in one of those hideous corporate environments wedded to IMAP mail and a corporate-shared address book and scheduler and so forth.
Don’t let the 1986-vintage interface fool you. This baby is almost exotically expandable and scales very nicely to manage an astonishing number of accounts, ISPs, personal identities, address book categories, filtering rules, and mailboxes.
I have a trace over 41,000 pieces of email in Eudora. I can do a Find based on content, date range, personality, any of the headers, size, or attachment and it’s very fast. One of these days just for the heck of it I’m going to artificially generate an immense body of email and see where it starts to choke, but I know from discussions with other Eudora users that my 41K is nothing spectacular.
I can send outbound email using myself (i.e., PostFix built into OS X) as my own SMTP server and have the email arrive as if sent from my regular ISP with replies going back to my regular ISP address, or send outbound email from one ISP account that appears and behaves to have been sent from another, and so forth, effortlessly.
I have as of last count (which dates back to June of ‘03, I’ve added plenty more since then) 4059 lines’ worth of custom instruction filters for how to handle incoming mail. I have some very old email addresses that are used as contact information on my web sites and by which name I’m known on moderated email Digests, etc., and therefore receive5 58,788 pieces of email last year, the vast majority of which was spam, of course, but less than 1% of it goes anywhere other than straight into my trash can.
Between freebie plugins and under-the-hood X-Eudora-Settings and good solid AppleScripability, this is one seriously solid email program.
Address Book can import and export addresses in the vCard format; can OE export to that?
In a related vein, Apple has these steps to get addresses out of Outlook Express, and these steps to import them into Address Book. They’re a tad dated, but worth a try.