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Transfer email addresses from one mail app to another
Authored by: coolfactor on May 21, '03 12:34:56PM

Although, personally, I have only ever used Eudora and Apple's Mail, this procedure seems to be cumbersome and unnecessary. I'd expect email apps to use the central Address Book, if they're to be good citizens in OS X, or other address book applications, for that matter. Isn't this the case with Eudora, Entourage, and other third-party apps? If not, this needs to change, I believe. I can understand synchronizing between devices, but between applications? Silly, silly.



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Transfer email addresses from one mail app to another
Authored by: j-beda on May 21, '03 02:05:22PM

I think the only email application that uses Mac OS X's address book is Apple's Mail.app

Certainly Eudora doesn't.

I think they all should try to have some sort of support for it though.



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Transfer email addresses from one mail app to another
Authored by: ujwal on May 21, '03 04:21:55PM
GNUMail.app, a cross-platform mail application of OS X and GNUstep, supports Apple's Address Book on OS X. I am one of the developers and did the Address Book integration.

ujwal

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Transfer email addresses from one mail app to another
Authored by: Chris Haynes on May 21, '03 05:51:33PM

Entourage X was released before Apple's Address Book was created (for 10.2), so it doesn't have Address Book syncing :( The way I have found to sync them is to make your changes, then export the vCards between the two apps, i.e.:

1. Make your changes in Address Book.
2. Export the vCards to the desktop.
3. Drag them into Entourage.

Maybe Microsoft will update Entourage X to add support for Address Book in a later version? All the e-mail addresses in those vCards will be available to Entourage X, so this method works for importing all your Mail.app addresses at least.

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Transfer email addresses from one mail app to another
Authored by: Chop on May 23, '03 02:06:26AM

You can drag individual emails from Entourage to the desktop and import them into Address Book as well. They show up as vCards on the desktop where you can drag and drop or import into Address Book.

If anyone figures out how to get Addresses from AOL into Address Book, let me know.



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Import app in your backyard!!
Authored by: digitol on May 23, '03 04:33:49AM

If you look at your applescript folder/example scripts/email you will find a ready made applescript that imports email from various programs..try it out it's great! :) -Lobo-



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