RE: Creating a Mhonarc archive from MS Outlook emails

["Tim Gwinn" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mhonarc-users@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-mhonarc-users@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lyle Schofield
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:50 PM
To: mhonarc-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Creating a Mhonarc archive from MS Outlook emails

Hi:

 

First -- a tremendous amount of thanks for this tip.  I've been struggling to figure out how to get my old Emails out of these Outlook archives, and this trick works great!

 

One question -- when you talk about HTML formatting being lost by Thunderbird, what type of formatting do you mean?  The only things that don't seem to translate well are HTML image attachments -- like spliced images -- but I'm mostly getting that in Email advertising which I don't care about so much.  The rest of formatting, fonts, color, etc, seem to come across fine.

 

I'm using Thunderbird 0.5 (your message indicates 0.4) -- did it change that much between those versions?

 

I have not yet tried 0.5, so perhaps that resolved the problems I experienced. In my case, almost all HTML formatting in the message body was lost, so that most special characters, formatting, and font changes were lost.

 

That struck me as a defect in the conversion routine, but when I looked at the notes for 0.5 I do not recall seeing reference made to the conversion routine, so I did not bother to try upgrading. Also, Netscape appears to use the same conversion routine and I had the same problems with it. Since Netscape was a much more mature product, I assumed that if it didn't work in Netscape, then it was unlikely to be fixed in Thunderbird.

 

 

 

Just curious -- thanks.

 

Side question -- are there any practical limits to the number of messages MHonArc can convert into an archive?  I've been testing in batches of 350, and it only takes a few minutes on my laptop.  But, if I try to dump thousands of messages in there will I hit some limit of what can be processed?  Thanks in advance.

 

-Lyle

 

Batches of 600 or so only take a few minutes on my klunky old PII-350 PC, so unless there is some routine that goes wild hogging memory, I suspect it would not be a problem.

 

Tim