Interguru -- Conversion Information</table> </head> <body style="margin:0;padding:0"> <div class="hide"><div style="padding:4 8;border-bottom:thin solid #eeeeee;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <div> <h2 align="center"><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><b>InterGuru<br> Maibox Conversion, Other Utilities, and <br> Links to Other Useful Sites</b></font></h2> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">If you use programs on this site, please send feedback to </font> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> generate_address( "jhd", "interguru.com" ,""); </script> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman">. Your feedback will guide me in giving advice in the future.</font></p> <a name="0.3_table01"></a> <div align="center"><center> <table width="641" border="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"> <a name="0.3_01000001"></a> <a name="0.3_01000002"></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Useful Products </b></font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"> <br> General Conversions: Mailboxes & Address Books </b></font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"> <hr size = 4> <h3 align=center>Interguru Recommends</h3> <a name="0.3_01000004"></a> <a href="https://www.regnow.com/softsell/visitor.cgi?affiliate=10776&action=site&vendor=5726&ref=http://www.connectedsw.com/Overview/57262" target="_blank"> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Address Magic</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> (Windows only): This product only converts address books, but has been around for ten years and is known for its broad address book support and simple, reliable operation. <br> Address Magic supports Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Pine, Lotus Notes, and Exchange Server, as well as other formats. <br> Money-back guarantee. <br> <b>Note:</b> Purchasing Address Magic helps support the Interguru site.</font> <p><a href="https://www.regnow.com/softsell/visitor.cgi?affiliate=10776&action=site&vendor=5726&ref=http://www.connectedsw.com/Overview/57263" target="_blank"> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Address Magic Enterprise Edition:</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> Converts both address books and messages and is designed for migrations between 100 and 100,000 users. <br> It supports Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Server, Lotus Notes, Eudora, Thunderbird, Mozilla, Netscape IMAP and GroupWise. <br> It supports centralized migrations and has extensive logging capabilities.</font></p> <hr size = 4> <a href="http://www.azzcardfile.com/address_book/address_book.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>AZZ Cardfile address book</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> (Windows only): AZZ Cardfile address book helps you maintain names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and any other text information that can be stored in cards.</font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b> <br>General Sites </b></font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"> <a href="http://www.emailman.com/index.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>eMailman</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: A great source of information; the </font><a href="http://www.emailman.com/conversion/index.html#mboxwin" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Mailbox Conversion</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> section is especially useful. <br> </font> <a href="http://book.resource-websites.com/addressbook/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Book Resource</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: A general resource for email and email address books. </font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"><a name="0.3_01000003"></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b><br> <p><a name="0.3_01000005"></a><a href="http://www.aid4mail.com/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Aid4Mail</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> (Windows only): Supports more than 20 mail clients and mailbox formats, including Office Outlook. It aids migration, conversion and archiving.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.joshie.com/projects/dawn" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Dawn</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> (Windows only): A freeware program for <b>address only</b> conversions that directly supports almost all e-mail programs, including Netscape, Outlook, Eudora, Pegasus Mail.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.openone.com/software/Direct-TO-1/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Direct-To-1</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Migration Software for many formats, including cc:Mail, GroupWise, Exchange, Lotus Notes and many others</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.comaxis.com/default.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Com/Axis</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Another heavy-duty migration software for multiple formats.</font></p> <p><a name="0.3_01000006"></a><a href="http://www.fkeeps.com/fmorph/fmindex.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>For Morph</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: ForMorph Message Converter converts Internet mail messages, Internet newsgroup messages, and CompuServe mail and Forum messages from a great number of formats to formats that can be used as-is or be imported into most mail programs, news readers and, CompuServe browsers</font></p> <p><a name="0.3_01000007"></a><a href="http://www.processtext.com/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>ABC Amber</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: This Windows-based program handles more than 20 mail formats including Web-based mail formats, such as AOL, and 30 other database and office conversions. <br> A trial edition is available.</font></p> <p><a name="0.3_01000008"></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>wab to ldif conversion</b></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>One reader’s suggestion:</b></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Just another suggestion for your website. I found this method to be faster than your other suggestions. I needed to convert from .wab to .ldif in order to upload an address book to the e-mail server for the university I work at. <br> <br> I simply downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird for free from </font><a href="http://mozilla.org/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>mozilla.org</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">. During the install, it will automatically convert your Outlook Express (and other) address books. <br> <br> After install, simply open Thunderbird, click on the address book, then tools, then export. It automatically saves the exported address book as an .ldif file. This can be saved anywhere you like, uploaded later, and converted to other formats.</font></p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"><a name="0.3_01000009"></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Macintosh-Based General Conversions: Mailboxes & Address Books</b></font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"> <a href="http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=address+convertor" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>AddressConvertor</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Convert between Eudora and Netscape. Hypercard Required </font> <p><a href="http://www.vivaladata.com/Chocolate_frame.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Emailer2Eudora</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Converts Addresses exported from Emailer to Eudora.</font></p> <p><a href="http://cois.chance.berkeley.edu/cois/train/eudora/quickmail/quick.convert.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>MkEudoraMbox.auto</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Converts QuickMail mail folders into Eudora mailboxes.</font></p> <p><a href="http://cois.chance.berkeley.edu/cois/train/eudora/quickmail/convert-addr1.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>QMAB Converter</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Converts QuickMail mail folders into Eudora mailboxes.</font></p> <p><a href="ftp://ftp.macemail.com/oe/Import_Emailer_signatures.hqx" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Import Emailer Signatures</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Converts Emailer signatures to Outlook Express.</font></p> <p><a href="http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=mailconverter" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>MailConverter</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Many mailbox conversions</font></p> <p><a href="http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/david/peg/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Pegasus Mail Converter</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Pegasus to Eudora</font></p> <p><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Eudora Mailbox Cleaner and Eudora vcard Export</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Eudora to Mac.app and Eudora to vcard. From vcard you can import into many other formats</font></p> <p><a href="http://scriptbuilders.net/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Script Builders</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> Mac scripts to sync and export/import to/from Entourage and many other utility functions.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/index.shtml" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Mailsmith</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: An Internet email client. You can try the free demo. <br> Some good advice from Rob Pegraro's </font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/columns/helpfile/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Help File</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> in the <i>Washington Post</i>.</font></p> <p> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56865-2004Dec11.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Copying an AOL Address Book Over to a Mac</u></font></a></p> <p> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29929-2004Nov6.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Transferring Mail Files to a Mac; Laptop Java Errors</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"><b> </b></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">(Eudora)</font> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Articles you might want to read:</font></p> <p> <a href="http://www.appletechs.com/archives/00000071.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Exporting email from Entourage 2001 to Eudora 5.1</u></font></a></p> <p> <a href="http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/import_export.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Entourage Help Page Export/Import FAQs</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: See bottom 3 items.</font> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>MAC OS9 Netscape address book copying</b></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Netscape 7 users on Mac OS 9 need to simply search and drag their old .mab files into the folder where NS automatically creates a new one. “mab” must stand for “main address book;” additional address books are thrown into a “Recovered Addresses” file.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">These must be sorted from there by creating new address books. Also, NS does not remember the names of the previous address books.</font></p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="100%" colspan="2"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Product-Specific Conversions: Mailboxes</b></font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="15%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Pegasus </b></font> </td> <td width="84%"><a name="0.3_0100000A"></a><a href="http://www.pmail.com" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>The official Pegasus Home Page</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: For general information </font> <p><a href="http://www.dragon-it.co.uk/pegasus.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Stephen Knight's Pegasus Add-on Programs</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Contains a large number of Pegasus utilities.</font></p> <p><a href="http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/david/peg/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Pegasus Mail Converter</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> Mac and Windows. <br> Windows version only does addresses. </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">For converting to Exchange and Outlook, go to: </font><a href="http://www.slipstick.com/config/e2mtips.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Converting Internet messages to Exchange or Outlook </u></font></a></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">For converting address books there appears to be a program called "Dawn" that will do this too. Most major E-Mail programs, including Netscape, Outlook, Eudora, Pegasus Mail and more are now supported directly: </font><a href="http://www.internettrash.com/users/zakharin" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Dawn, the Address Manager</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">CompuServe users should check out: </font><a href="http://www.comaxis.com/csa.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>csAccess - Convert Compuserve WinCIM File Cabinet and Address Book </u></font></a></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">For even more information about converting, see: </font><a href="ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/dos/apps/pmail/pmail-addons.txt" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub<WBR>/ibmpc/dos/apps/pmail/pmail<WBR>-addons.txt</u></font></a></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>For Eudora mail folders and all other Unix MBOX-compatible mail programs, like Netscape, Pine, etc.</b>: No conversion is necessary for Pegasus Mail for Windows version 3.0x and above.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Click on the Folders -> Add Mailbox To List menu option and enter the path to the directory where the Eudora *.mbx are located. </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Enter a name for this mailbox structure - don't use single- or double- quotes.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The Eudora mailboxes are added in a new mailbox using the chosen name. For other MBOX-compatible mail programs, you will have to first rename the mail folders so that they use a .MBX filename extension. </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Note</b>: We don't recommend using the MBOX mail folders within Pegasus Mail for regular mail storage. The feature is primarily intended to allow you to quickly import/export mail.</font></p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="15%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Eudora <br> Netscape <br> Pine <br> Elm <br> Zmail</b></font></td> <td width="84%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">They all use same standard Internet format (</font><a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u> RFC 822</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">/</font><a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1521.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u> RFC 1521</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">).</font> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">To go between them, move the files and add or delete extensions them as appropriate. </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The more recent versions of Netscape and Eudora can import from other formats:</font></p> <p><a href="https://www.regnow.com/softsell/visitor.cgi?affiliate=10776&action=site&vendor=5726&ref=http://www.connectedsw.com/Overview/57263" target="_blank"> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Address Magic Enterprise Edition</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: A commercial tool for migrating messages and address books for dozens to tens of thousands of users from Netscape 4/6/7 or Eudora to Microsoft Outlook or IMAP.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.intraware.com/ms/itwr/pfaq/NSCP/convIE.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Converting from IE</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: For Netscape, but works for others</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.mobbs.com/dialup/96g4-8.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Eudora to Netscape</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Also shows how to go the other Netscape to Eudora</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">To convert from MSIE Internet Mail (Outlook Express) go to </font><a href="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9276/msie2eu.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Brian Hook's Page</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">, which has a Windows based tool. </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Netscape has a site, </font><a href="http://help.netscape.com/kb/client/970709-1.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Converting from IE Mail and News to Communicator</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">SRCTec's </font><a href="http://www.srctec.com/smartmails.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>SmartMails</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> is a mail format conversion and management tool that support MS Internet Mail (Outlook Express) and Netscape.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Note:</b>There are problems involved with moving files between Unix and DOS/Windows/Mac.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">You can avoid these problems by making sure that you FTP the file as an “ascii,” not a “binary" transfer.”</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">For a more detailed discussion, see </font><a href="http://mango.human.cornell.edu/kens/rhill.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>General Info on Converting to Eudora Format</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">. It discusses conversion to and from Eudora. The discussion holds for the other e-mail programs that share the same format. Eudora maintains a </font><a href="http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/genfaq.html#convert" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>FAQ</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> on the subject. <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Some good advice from Rob Pegraro's </font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/columns/helpfile/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Help File</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> in the <i>Washington Post</i>.</font></p> <p> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56865-2004Dec11.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29929-2004Nov6.html" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Transferring Mail Files to a Mac; Laptop Java Errors</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"><b> </b></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>(Eudora)</u> </font></p></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="15%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>AOL </b></font> </td> <td width="84%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Go to the </font><a href="http://www.interguru.com/aolall.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>AOL page</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">. </font> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="15%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Internet Explorer <br> (Outlook Express) </b></font></td> <td width="84%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">IE can import from Eudora and Netscape.</font> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">See the Eudora etc. box above from conversions from IE. </font></p></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="15%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>MS Outlook </b></font></td> <td width="84%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">See </font><a href="http://www.slipstick.com/config/e2mtips.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>Slipstick</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">: Sue Mosher does an excellent job untangling intricacies of the many versions of Outlook.</font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="15%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>CompuServe </b></font> </td> <td width="84%"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">For addresses, try </font><a href="http://www.interguru.com/genrgenr.htm/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>the Interguru conversion</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">.</font> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">If that does not work, go to </font><a href="http://www.cs2exchange.com/Products/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><u>CS2Exchange Software</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">. They have many CompuServe conversions and utilities.</font></p></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </center></div> <p> <a href="http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm"><img src="/homebut.gif" alt="Go to Mail Conversion Page" align="middle"> InterGuru Mail Conversion Page</a> </div> </div></body></html>