PC WRmt: AT&T Access Plus Folder Conversion Utility

Last reviewed: June 3, 1996
Article ID: Q106349
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows, version 3.2

SUMMARY

Microsoft provides an AT&T Access Plus Folder Conversion utility, ATTIMP.EXE, for use with version 3.2 of Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows.

For complete information about obtaining and installing the ATTIMP.EXE file, see the following sections:

  • To download the updated file
  • To install your ATTIMP.EXE file

MORE INFORMATION

The ATTIMP.EXE utility imports mail folders created by the AT&T Access Plus products to the Mail message file (MMF) used by Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows. You should use this utility only with the AT&T Mail driver. If you try to use it with any other driver, you will receive the following error:

   You are not using the AT&T Mail driver. Use the Mail System
   Selector to select AT&T Mail as the current driver and try again.

For more information about using the Mail System Selector, see the Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows "User's Guide."

To download the updated file

You can find ATTIMP.EXE (size: 27728 bytes) 
                       , a self-extracting file, on the following
services:
  • Microsoft's World Wide Web Site on the Internet

          On the www.microsoft.com home page, click the Support icon.
          Click Knowledge Base, and select the product.
    
          Enter kbfile ATTIMP.EXE (size: 27728 bytes) 
                                 , and click GO!
          Open the article, and click the button to download the file.
    
    
  • Internet (anonymous FTP)

          ftp ftp.microsoft.com
          Change to the Softlib/Mslfiles folder.
          Get ATTIMP.EXE (size: 27728 bytes) 
    
  • The Microsoft Network

          On the Edit menu, click Go To, and then click Other Location.
          Type "mssupport" (without the quotation marks).
          Double-click the MS Software Library icon.
          Find the appropriate product area.
          Locate and Download ATTIMP.EXE.
    
  • Microsoft Download Service (MSDL)

          Dial (206) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL
          Download ATTIMP.EXE (size: 27728 bytes) 
    

For additional information about downloading, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online
               Services

After you download ATTIMP.EXE to a clean directory, run it (by typing "attimp" at the MS-DOS prompt) to extract the contents of the file. You should receive the following files:

   ATTIMP.EXE (17,808 bytes, dated 06-09-93, 10:29 A.M.)
   README.TXT

To install your ATTIMP.EXE file

  1. At the MS-DOS command prompt, type the following and press ENTER

          copy <path>:\attimp.exe <destination>
    

    where <path> is the drive and directory where you ran the self- extracting ATTIMP.EXE file and <destination> is the drive and directory where your ATTIMP.EXE file currently resides. For example, if you ran the self-extracting file from the TEST directory on drive D, and you want to copy ATTIMP.EXE to the MSMAIL directory on drive C, type the following command:

          copy d:\test\attimp.exe c:\msmail
    

  2. In the Windows Program Manager, create an AT&T Folder Conversion icon with the following properties:

         -------------------------------------------------
    
         |            Program Item Properties            |
         -------------------------------------------------
         |  Description          AT&T Folder Conversion  |
         |                                               |
         |  Command Line:     C:\MSMAIL\ATTIMP.EXE       |
         |                                               |
         |  Working Directory:                           |
         |                                               |
         |  Shortcut Key:     None                       |
         |                                               |
         -------------------------------------------------
    
    

  3. Before you run ATTIMP.EXE, use the Microsoft Mail Selector to make sure that the AT&T driver is the current mail driver and that the Access Plus OUT folder is empty.

  4. To run ATTIMP.EXE, double-click the AT&T Folder Conversion icon created in step 2.

  5. The ATTIMP.EXE utility will first prompt for the path to the Access Plus File Cabinet. It expects to find a directory that contains IN, OUT, and SESSION subdirectories. Except for the IN and WASTE folders, a folder with the same name as the Access Plus folder will be created at the topmost level of the private folders in the MMF. Messages will then be imported to the corresponding folders (these messages are AT&T messages of type MSU, MSG, MSS, MSR, and MSQ). If a folder with the same name already exists, Access Plus messages will be added to it. The WASTE folder will not be imported and messages in the IN folder will be imported into the Inbox folder.

    NOTES:

    - This utility does not import address directories, nor does it

         change the personal address book (PAB).
    

    - If you run the utility twice on the same messages, duplicate

         messages will be imported.
    


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Last reviewed: June 3, 1996
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