Forgive my ignorance but I gather Applescripts is a generic term for various applications - am I right in thinking its a program for accepting text from Email messages or is there more to it ?
Re the Filemaker Pro format - I used that years ago for my addresses for my Christmas Card list. I hated trying to coordinate the data file with the label file and although I still use it once a year it seemed rather clutsy compared with the smooth operation of software nowadays...thinking of CE of course :) Bea >There are at least 2 applications for extracting messages from CE that are >not free Applescripts. Both run in OS X. The first is eMA which is >basically a Filemaker Pro database with scripts to collect the messages >from various email clients (Filemaker not required).The second is >Emailchemy. Both provide good support. > >eMA is a shareware program that seems to still be in beta and Emailchemy >is a commercial application. I really like the Filemaker format of eMA >but it would not handle my client Gyazmail. I now archive to mbox format >and used Emailchemy to convert my CE messages to mbox some time back. I >hope that eMA will be able to convert mbox files to Filemaker in the >future and I can get everything into eMA/Filemaker. > >Emailchemy http://www.weirdkid.com > >eMA http://homepage.mac.com/thinkagain/eMA/ > >S. Kennedy > >On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:53:42 -0400, cb wrote: >> On Jun 2, 2007, at 10:14 PM, Beatrice Hopkinson wrote: >> >>> Am I right in thinking that this would be a way to archive my list >>> mail >>> annually rather than backing them up on a separate disk. Would this also >>> mean that you have to remember the theme threads to retrieve a particular >>> Email? >> >> You could. But if you should would depend a lot on how often you go >> back to those emails. >> >> Once you export them all to a single text file, it would be like >> reading one giant digest version of the list. So there is no fast >> easy way to jump to a single email, or a thread of emails. >> >> If you want to easily be able to go back to those emails at a future >> time, but don't want to leave them in your mail database taking up >> room... then you probably want to take a look at Email Archiver. >> Someone else on the list should be able to give you a link to >> download it and some assistance on using it. I myself only used it >> once very briefly eons ago, so I really don't know much about it. >> >> -chris >> <www.mythtech.net> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
