# MailSteward™

Contents: Home Settings Archive Email Search Email Indexing for faster searches Browse Email Schedule Archive Tags Back Up Your Database Export... Import mbox files... Check for Duplicate Email Database Statistics Report... Merge Database... Compact Database System Requirements Links: MailSteward Request a feature Submit a Bug SQLite MailTags | Import mbox files...: The Microsoft Entourage X email client uses a proprietary database to store email. However if you drag a mailbox from Entourage onto your desktop or into a folder, Entourage will export the dragged mailbox as a standard format UNIX mbox file that MailSteward can understand. Entourage only converts the email at the top level of any folder that you drag. It doesn't convert any email contained in subfolders. Each subfolder has to be dragged individually. Most other email clients also can export mbox files. Mbox files that have been created in this way can be read into your MailSteward email archive by selecting Import mbox files... from the File menu. Also, in the MailSteward Settings, you can specify a folder that contains mbox files, that you want to be imported whenever you do an Archive. Eudora mailboxes are also in an mbox format that can be imported into MailSteward. Eudora mailboxes are usually found in the ~/Documents/Eudora Folder/Mail Folder directory. If you are importing a Eudora mailbox, do not move or copy it to a different directory. MailSteward depends on the Eudora folder hierarchy to correctly process Eudora email files. There is a problem with Eudora email attachments. Eudora removes the attachments from the email and stores them in a separate folder and puts a reference to them into the mbox file that it generates. The reference to the attachment does not say where the attachment is located. Its location is something known to Eudora, but is not defined in the mbox file itself. With a simple default Eudora folder hierarchy, MailSteward will find the attachments, but with a more complicated folder hierarchy, sometimes MailSteward is unable to find the attachments. The mail will be successfully imported, but the links to the attachments will not always be viable.

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