Converting Entourage Emails

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hlr

I have received a CD supposedly containing emails with attachments that
I have been asked to print out. I do not have a MAC or Entourage and
was wondering if there is a way to import the data I have received into
Exchange 2003/Outlook 2000. The data on the CD contains a folder
called Main Identity Copy with four files entitled Database, Mailing
Lists, Rules, and Signatures. I'm assuming all of the data is in
Database. Should I ask the client to provide the data in another
format so that I can import it into Outlook 2000? Any advice would be
appreciated. Thank you.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I have received a CD supposedly containing emails with attachments that
I have been asked to print out. I do not have a MAC or Entourage and
was wondering if there is a way to import the data I have received into
Exchange 2003/Outlook 2000. The data on the CD contains a folder
called Main Identity Copy with four files entitled Database, Mailing
Lists, Rules, and Signatures. I'm assuming all of the data is in
Database. Should I ask the client to provide the data in another
format so that I can import it into Outlook 2000? Any advice would be
appreciated. Thank you.
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No.

Someone has sent you their entire database and associated files for opening
in Entourage - part of Microsoft Office Mac - on the Mac. That's sort of
like a PST file in Outlook - it's proprietary, only Entourage can read it,
nothing else, anywhere in the universe. They seem to have forgotten to tell
you _which version_ of Entourage. The database will open only in the version
of Entourage from which it was derived. (Entourage 2004, X or 2001).

It was a ridiculous thing for them to have done. Politely ask them to please
drag out _ONLY_ the actual messages they want you to read and print directly
into a new email message to you. (It's no good for them to drag the messages
to a CD, since your Windows will not understand the Mac format of the CD.
Although it's technically possible for them to format a CD for Windows on
their Mac, they won't know how.) The messages contain attachments, that's
OK.

On windows, open the emails in Outlook Express, not Outlook. Or at least
drag the .eml attachments you receive to your desktop to make .eml files.
These are the whole messages (containing their own attachments). Outlook
can't read .eml message format, but Outlook Express can. Drag the .eml files
into Outlook Express, and you can read and print them form there, and also
open the attachments they contain.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
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mmmmark

Just to add another option to the fine advice already given...

You could also have the requester open that database in the proper version
of Entourage which created it and drag individual folders to their desktop.
Files that are called .mbox files will be created. These can be opened in
various PC/Unix email programs such as Thunderbird and I believe Eudora, if
you care to fool with either of these.

These .mbox (be sure they are changed to .mbx files) files can be put on a
CD in OS X (which by default burns a format read equally as well by windows)
and transfer these files to a PC for opening/converting. I seem to remember
a conversion program so that .mbox files can be crowbarred into Outlook
Express. (found link to .eml conversion program:
http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/home.html )

This way isn't any better than the other suggested per se, but it does allow
you to receive the files en masse on CD rather than via email attachment in
case you prefer it.

Good luck!

-Mark
 
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