| Moving from your previous Mailer |
  
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| Moving from your previous Mailer |
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As many mailers use proprietary formats, the move from your previous one may not be a simple task. However, MailCOPA is able to import messages directly from some other mailers, or from text files, and will import .CSV files into address books.
MailCOPA has Wizards that take you through the import of mail messages from:
•MS Outlook Express v5 & v6
•MS Outlook
•Eudora
•Thunderbird
•MS Windows Mail
Or of Addresses from:
•MS Outlook Express v5 & v6
•MS Outlook
•Eudora
•Windows Contacts (Vista)
Messages
If the Wizards above are not applicable, MailCOPA can import messages that are in plain text format.
First export the messages from your old mailer into a directory reserved just for this purpose. You may be able to do this with complete folders, or you may have to do it message-by-message.
Then select the MailCOPA folder into which you wish to import the message, right-click it, select Import from the menu and then Text (.txt/.eml/.msg) files. Now find the messages directory using the dialog box that is opened. Press OK and MailCOPA will import ALL text files in that directory as messages into the selected folder. Caution - ensure that all of the text files are RFC-compliant messages, as any that are not may produce unpredictable results.
Similarly, UNIX mailbox files (a single file with many messages within it, one after the other, supported by some other mailers) can be imported.
Address Books
Addresses may be imported directly from some mailers (see above).
However, if you are not moving from one of the supported mailers, it may well be possible to export them from your previous mailer as a .CSV file, which MailCOPA can import.