Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello, If you are using GMail with IMAP then you probably have those messages stored on GMail' servers. You can confirm this by going to GMail's Web interface and looking for the messages. If you find them, you don't need to worry with copying messages to the Mac. Just configure your GMail acco

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Denise Barajas
I have everything through google mail. I have Mozila thunderbird and Outlook express. I believe I have it all set as Imap. It's either that, or one and one. I don't qutie remember. On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > ok. who's your email provider? also are you using IMAP or P

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
ok. who's your email provider? also are you using IMAP or POP3 as your mail setup in windows? if it's imap, you should be able to set up your email account directly in mail and mail will fetch data from your mail server. that's if the emails you've kept are stored on the mail server to your pro

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Denise Barajas
That's a lot more hassle. I would like to simply find a way to transfer these e-mails to an external or some removable medium, convert these to whatever form the Mac will recognize for the mail client and simply get rid of those programs. It's either that or I have to switch out systems, as thes

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread James Scholes
Denise Barajas wrote: > I have a Windows XP computer which contains several sentimental e-mails on a > few programs I've tried. Is there any way I could get step-by-step > instructions on converting these to send these to the Mac Mail application? I > know this might be a very dificult question,

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread James Scholes
Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > depending on whether your email provider has it's own saved folder or work, > etc you can drop those emails to the directory, then open mail in mac, build > your account, then when it's up and running, your emails should come accross. > if not, then it's time to make an

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
ah lol you see what I did there. ah ha! lol people might consider the to and from, subject header just as important as it's content. lol lew Kicking the daylights out of a windows laptop which WON'T BEHAVE! On 10 Jan 2012, at 18:39, Ricardo Walker wrote: > I guess, > > but since she said

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
I guess, but since she said they were sentimental, I assumed the content was more important than the to and from information. :) Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > that would depend di

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
that would depend directly upon whether the user wishes to keep all data associated to the email including the email address. this can also depend on the type of content taken within the email. lew On 10 Jan 2012, at 18:35, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > maybe I'm missing something but, can'

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, maybe I'm missing something but, can't you just copy the text into word or something then just save the file and e-mail it to where ever you want? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote:

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
more than happy to help. It's pretty simple. depending on whether your email provider has it's own saved folder or work, etc you can drop those emails to the directory, then open mail in mac, build your account, then when it's up and running, your emails should come accross. if not, then it's