Import web-based email into Entourage

Apr 16, '02 10:06:11AM

Contributed by: iGav

I have been using the same web-based email service for several years and it has always irked me that the only way of transferring emails to my home machine was by forwarding the mail to my POP account, which had the disadvantage of making it not apparent who the mail was originally from.

I have discovered that you can import individual emails into Entourage if you change the extension from ".txt" to ".mbox". You can also import many emails at a go if you paste them one after the other into a text editor and precede each with the text "From ???@???" and then save the file with an 'mbox" extension. You can then drag and drop the text into Entourage.

[Editor's note: I haven't used Entourage, so I can't say that I've tested this hint.]

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