On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jul 1, 2025, at 14:11, Kurt Wendt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I tried to look and see what I can do - to get you an .mbox file. But, I
> could not figure out how to export that, and I even asked my IT guy here -
> and he didn't know either. He said it's Old technology stuff.
>
> "Old technology" == "standards that email have had forever"
>
> Just because MSFT figured out how to increase their Exchange storage
> requirements by creating a bloated new format, doesn't make it better.
>
> > FYI - I am using latest & greatest of Outlook here at work.
> > If you have any pointers on how I could get you what you need - I'm all
> Ears.
>
> Looks like the only option would be plain text. I could parse that back
> into .mbox format, and then import it.
>
> -- Ed Leafe
>

Google Takeout claims it can do mbox exports, using a label created to flag
the mail messages, according to:

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-export-your-emails-from-gmail-as-mbox-files-1171881

I'll give it a whirl...


--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
---

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