Importing email addresses from 10.4.11 to 10.6.2

I have a new iMac 27" and I have successfully imported my Address Book v-cards from my G3 laptop. I would also like to import all my email settings. In my old Mail when I begin to type an address it gives me a drop down menu with choices from all previously sent Mail. Can I bring this information into the new Mail?

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Here is an article about this requirement;
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1600
Allan

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TS1541 I tried importing email addresses from gmail and now my address book is locked up and will not work. Help please.

I tried importing email addresses from gmail and now my address book is locked up and will not work. Do I need to delete my address book software and reinstall? If so, what is the proper way to do this? New to Macbook software. I have tried several things and nothing has helped. I have backed up photos, movies, etc. My addresses are on my iphone so I can sync them later right if I loose my data?
Thanks for your time and expertise,
T.

You can probably resolve this by removing some Address Book preference files rather than deleting your Address Book application.
First turn off Synchronize in Address Book Preferences if you can.
Next restart Address Book and try to export everything to your Desktop.
I have had a play and found my Address Book preference files. In the following ~/Library is the Library within your Home folder. Any numerals may differ on your Mac. Quit Address Book before doing anything with these.
1 - Display details and things set in Address Book Preferences
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
2 - Has no data - not sure what this does
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
3 - Has last sync date - may have more if I used sync
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.AddressBook.sync.000393735c06.plist
4 - My contact details
/Library/Preferences/AddressBookMe.plist
5 - Individual addresses and groups stored as separate files within:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata
6 - All of these addresses are are also in this single database:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
If you wish to remove all addresses drag both 5 & 6 to your Desktop.
If you wish to reset preferences drag 1 your Desktop.
Removing 3 may resolve sync issues but I am unable to test this.
If you wish to reset everything drag all except 4 to your desktop.
Apple has an interesting page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2481
I hope this helps.

You can import email addresses from:

hi,all:
the following is a web page,when i click [import] ,i want obtain the checked email addresses,could you tell me how to do it ,any ideas i'd appreciated!
You can import email addresses from:
[checkbox] Microsoft Outlook
[checkbox] Outlook Express
[checkbox] MSN Messenger
[ Import]

You want to actually read the address books from those apps from a web page? Good luck, cuz ain't no HTML/JSP you can write that'll do that for you.

How to import email addresses from yahoo

how to import email addresses from yahoo

See:
*http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contacts/impexp/email/;_ylt=AtR4x2nVc9gwLrhuPWeKFQofUndG
*http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contacts/impexp/email/contactsimpexp-41.html;_ylt=AmYBdKJeiYVI1vgfvtKf.KRrinpG

Can I import email addresses from a contact group into a new email?

Import email addresses? I'm trying to send an electronic invitation to a group of about 50 people. I have to enter each of their email addresses, and rather than typing them one by one, I'm wondering if I can import all of their email addresses from a group I created in my Address Book. I'm sending the invitation through the company's website, nut my email, so the email address does not appear when I start typing their names. Thanks!

Open a new message and start typing the groups name in the 'To' field works for me. Some e-mail providers have limits on how many addressees can be in one e-mail.

Importing email addresses from a text file

I have a db on one of my websites that I maintain for my client. I can download that db as an Excel file. This db has many fields.
Once I download that Excel file I open and sort it for just the email addresses I want. Then I copy and paste those email addresses in plain RTF text file. So, now I have a long list of email addresses. I then have to put a comma after each one and then saved that file.
Here's my question"
What I want to do next is import that RTF list into Mail (somehow) as a group so I can send out a couple of hundred emails at a time to my customers in the Bcc box. And if I understand it correctly, since all those addresses are in the Bcc box those who receive those emails will only see their email address in the To: box.
So how can I do this? How can I take this RTF file bring it into Mail and get this done.
First time on this forum.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Martin
I have been seeking answers on this forum for a problem you will encounter (but may not have yet). Firstly, you will want to import your DB files into AdressBook, not Mail. IN AddressBook you sort your contacts into groups for email or whatever. The Mail Program then uses that data to fill in its fields.
The problem I have been having is that AddressBook seems like it should import, indeed looks like it should do it very simply, but ..... simply doesn't do it when you click the "OK" button.... as you might expect. I have not found the answer here yet, but suspect that its an OS development snafu and must needs be done another way. Some replies seem to suggest a solution at Versiontracker. com
Good luck

Importing Email Addresses from TextEdit Document?

I have been sent over 1000 email addresses to add to my Address Book for mailouts.
The emails have been sent in nothing more than a simple text document, with each email on its own line. It's not a vCard or a CSV or anything like that. Just straight up addresses sent via email.
What would be the easiest way to add these email addresses to Address Book?
Thanks!

If there are commas separating the values (John,Doe,[email protected]) then the file extension should be .csv. If there are tabs (John Doe [email protected])(here I have used spaces instead of tab; it should be a real tab) the extension should be .txt. But it your file has only one field ([email protected]) then Address Book won't know how to handle it. In that case pull it into Excel, fill the 2nd column with rubbish, and save it as csv. When you get the AB import dialogue tell it not to import the second column.
AK

Importing email addresses from Excel

I have 2 rather large lists of contact information that I want to import into my address book. Is there a way that I can import them all at one time instead of individually.
thanks for the help.

Yes. First make sure the contact list is "clean" - that all names and addresses are in the correct columns. You'll ideally want first and last names in separate columns. Remove any extraneous rows or columns. Save it as a CSV file from Excel.
In Address Book, choose File - Import, and choose the file. It will ask you what fields belong to which columns. You can also choose to ignore the first row, if that contains only column header information. And that's basically it. Check the imported cards afterwards to make sure they're correct - you'll almost certainly have a little bit of clean-up to do.
Matt

How do i import email addresses to an ipad?

can i import email addresses from an online account (surewest) to my ipad?

Fire Fox is a web browser, not an an email provider. If you are using web based email, you have to check on the email providers site and see if there is a way for you to export the contacts to your computer's address book and then you can sync them to the iPad using iTunes.

Address Book imported all of my email addresses from Mail without warning

My Address Book suddenly was full of new contacts, every single email I got in the past had it's sender copied to my address book without me importing anything. They were just there. A total mess. I now have to manually erase all the contacts I don't want
How can I prevent this from happening again?

I have no clue. Just opened Address Book today and there they were. stuff like [email protected], mails that I got only once, or five different email addresses from the same contact, each as a single contact file. I am no stranger to isync and address book, never experienced anything like that.
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Importing a group of names and email addresses from EXCEL to address book

I want to create a new group in my address book, so I can send one email to multiple addresses. I have an EXCEL document that contains the names and email addresses. Is there an easy way to import them into my address book from EXCEL?
Thanks, Teri

Hi,
I'm having the same problem. I'm trying to import 300 addresses from an Excel file into Address Book. The Excel file has been converted to tab-delimited (txt). I've gone through and deleted any extra line breaks within fields, commas, etc in the addresses.
When I go to Address Book and ask it to import the Text file, I get the dialog window showing me the fields it will import, but when I click on "OK", the program just freezes. Also, it tells me in the dialog window that it won't import specific fields like Street 2, City, State or Zip and there is information in all of those fields for every record to import.
I've been working on this for three weeks now and am at my wits end. I have never had a database program be so difficult to work with.
Any ideas?

Giving users control of their own distribution list control to add or remove external email addresses from their list

We are a Exchange 2010 SP3 shop, we have distribution groups (with over 200 email addresses ) from another email system which has only external email addresses (i.e [email protected] [email protected] and so on …..)
We want to import these groups into exchange. we called microsoft, they said create mail contacts for each address and put those in a Distribution Group. I know this will work.
Our goal is to have the user create / maintain / add / remove external their own email addresses (Not the IT department)
There must be many companies whose requirements match ours. Are there third party tools that would handle creation of distribution list?
Any constructive advice would be greatly appreciated ! THank you

I wouldn't give the ability to create contacts to everyone in the environment because it will become mess at some point of time and IT will have to jump to control it
anyway so why don’t from the start...
I would give this to certain people like Leads or Managers of the groups under certain IT Policy so it will be still under control and people
will think before asking their superior to create them and someone gets responsibility to manage these contacts...
Though here is the more specific article on how to delegate creating and editing contacts...
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How to extract email address from Outlook friendly name cache

Hi guys,
A while ago, somebody wrote a little VBA utility to help us to log CRM events. Whenever a user sends an email to a customer, it logs the fact in our CRM database. This is the programmatic process:
1. Grab the email address from ActiveInspector.CurrentItem.To
2. If it's a valid email address, all well and good. Proceed to Step 8.
3. If not a valid email address (it must be a friendly name, perhaps located in Exchange), look for the address in:
ActiveInspector.CurrentItem.Recipients.Item(1).AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser.PrimarySmtpAddress
4. If it's a valid email address, all well and good. Proceed to Step 8.
5. If not a valid email address (it must be in the user's Contact list), look for the address in:
ActiveInspector.CurrentItem.Recipients.Item(1).AddressEntry.GetContact.Email1Address
6. If it's a valid email address, all well and good. Proceed to Step 8.
7. If not a valid email address, then crash!!! <<------------------------------------------------- Here's where I'm stuck!
8. Get the CustomerID from the CRM, based on email address.
9. Do a bunch of other stuff (for example, send the email, and log the event in the CRM).
I'm a former Access MVP, and am highly experienced with VBA, but my forte is clearly not Outlook. What I'd like to do is find the email address by looking in the local cache, and make sure I get the actual email address rather than the friendly name.
I'm not sure if 'local cache' is the right word; I know Outlook stores frequently used email address in some sort of cache, even if the user has not explicitly stored it as a Contact. I just don't know how to find it. Can anyone point me in the right
direction, maybe with a method name?
Also, while mucking about with it, I found the following. Would it be useful in this scenario?
ActiveInspector.CurrentItem.Recipients.Item(1).AddressEntry.GetExchangeDistributionList
Many thanks,
Graham R Seach
Regards, Graham R Seach Sydney, Australia

Hi Graham,
This might help you to figure things out a bit.
The contact cache you are looking for is called the nickname cache, also known as the "autocomplete stream."
The nickname files (.nk2) used by older versions of Outlook (2007 and below).
Outlook 2010 and 2013 does not use the NK2 file; it stores the autocomplete cache in the mailbox or data file and caches the addresses in an autocomplete stream at C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\RoamCache. The cache is stored in a file
named Stream_Autocomplete_0_[long GUID].dat.
For applications that interact with Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013, the autocomplete stream is stored as a MAPI property and can be modified using the MAPI or the
PropertyAccessor object of the message. The PropertyAccessor object is exposed in the Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013 object models.
Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013 reads the autocomplete stream from a message in the Associated Contents table of the Inbox of the mail account’s delivery store. This hidden message has a message class and subject of IPM.Configuration.Autocomplete. The autocomplete
stream is stored on this message in the PR_ROAMING_BINARYSTREAM property (PidTagRoamingBinary Canonical Property).
References:
How to import .nk2 files into Outlook 2013
Some Application which can read the Nickname Cache
Interacting with the Autocomplete Stream
Autocomplete Stream
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff625291.aspx
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Satyajit
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Retrieve email addresses from everyone who ever sent me an email?

Hello all,
Is there a way to retrieve every email address from everyone who has ever sent me an email? Is there a file somewhere? I don't mind if I have to cut and paste them into my address book. I have never used my address book, which was not too smart.
OS 10.5
Mail 3.6
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there is no file but you can do it using Mail Scripts. http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
It has a script to import addresses from selected emails into Address Book. select all emails in your inbox and use it.

Extracting all email addresses from On My Mac Mail

hi all.
trying to do a final organization here after porting to mac OS.
i am trying to extract all emails from my archived mail in the "On My Mac" section of my mac pro. this means that this data will no longer be accessible from my laptop machine or from my iPhone when traveling. in a lot of cases there will be incoming mail from recipients whom i /may/ not have replied to or whom i did not reply to within Mac Mail (i am coming from PC land and i have used Postbaox before ditching this software awhile back).
i realize that i have the opportunity to ADD emails from the Previous Recipients section of my Mac Pro and from my MacBookPro - however in the case of mail that i am archiving on the Mac Pro this option is not available.
can anyone help me get from here to there (having some kind of list of my important email addresses) so that i can go through this list and either keep it on hand or add the important ones manually to my Contacts? i would say that alternatively i would be happy to bulk add these to the Previous Recipients list on my Mac Pro but this data is already somewhat out of hand and the fact that it resides only on my desktop until i add the addresses to Mac Contacts (as does the Previous Recipients List on my MacBook Pro and presumably on my IPhone).
i ran a google search and came up with the following links which i am going to print out and try and muddle through so any advice on this would be really welcome.
THANKS
extracting email addresses from On My Mac mail:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2019941?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-apps-games/231559-email-address-extraction -tool.html
http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=25875
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If you are lucky, you might be able to restore individual messages. To do it, open Mail and then, open the Time Machine application (in /Applications/Utilities). Then, choose the backup you want at the right and you will be able to select messages and restore them.
After restoring them, they will appear in "Recovered Messages" in the Mail sidebar, under "On my Mac"

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