Nat,
OL Express under Windows can export to a MAPI message store (Exchange or
Outlook). There is a MAPI module for Perl that could be used to walk
through the messages and retrieve the fields that contain the body and
original SMTP header. Not a simple program since the MAPI interface's data
structure is complex, and since to write the script one would have to be
fluent in both Perl and MS's MAPI.
-- SP
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Nathaniel Irons
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:43 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Problems archiving Outlook Express Messages!
>
>
> On 11/3/99 at 8:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Pacenka) wrote:
>
> > Could you please post an example of a .dbx file that contains two
> > messages, so it is possible to examine the raw message headers and
> > what separates consecutive messages?
>
> I was recently given some archives as OE for Mac OS mailboxes
> -- mhonarc
> clearly could not read them, but furthermore, OE has no user-level
> export functionality, to mbox or any other format.
>
> The only way to get them out was to write an applescript to go mailbox
> to mailbox, writing each message/header combo to a file,
> writing a From
> separator, and moving on to the next. Thank you, anonymous midlevel
> microsoft manager.
>
> But then, perhaps I should be grateful that it supported even a
> scriptable export. I imagine the Win32 version has an analogue,
> assuming it suffers from the same lack of obvious export capabilities.
>
> -nat
>
>
