importing messages from Outlook Express
Mark Lloyd
have seen a few posts about a program on the web. This does NOT work. It is made
for '.MBX' files from Outlook, not the '.DBX' files that Outlook Express uses.
Barbara Needham
wrote:
>I am looking for a way to transfer messages from Outlook Express to Agent. I
>have seen a few posts about a program on the web. This does NOT work. It is made
>for '.MBX' files from Outlook, not the '.DBX' files that Outlook Express uses.
I saved mine as text files and then imported them to Agent; however I
only had a few and they didn't ALL work). I belive Jim has a way of
converting txt files so they can be imported.
Barbar
Barbara Needham
JimB
wrote:
>I am looking for a way to transfer messages from Outlook Express to Agent.
Depends on what you mean by 'a way'.
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| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:57:21 +1000
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Arkadiusz Mucha
wrote:
>I am looking for a way to transfer messages from Outlook Express to Agent. I
>have seen a few posts about a program on the web. This does NOT work. It is made
>for '.MBX' files from Outlook, not the '.DBX' files that Outlook Express uses.
You can use dbxtract from
http://chattanooga.net/~scochran/DBXtract.htm
to extract messages from Outlook Express folders.
You can then cocatenate them into an mbox file that Agent can import
using MsgCvt from
http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/
Do not use the *.* wildcard with MsgCvt as this program has a bug and
will try to process the current directory. You should rather use
expressions such as *.nws or *.eml
Arkadiusz Mucha
JimB
>This message
Forget all that.
The advice from AM elsewhere in this thread is far better.
JimB
Thanks for that.
Just goes to show me that I should take my own advice.
Some months ago I suggested to someone with the usual OE5 -> Agent
question that MsgCvt might be useful but I never heard anything back
(and forgot to check it out myself).
What a lot of aggravation would have been avoided...
Arkadiusz Mucha
>On Sat, 08 Apr 2000 03:41:14 +0200, Arkadiusz Mucha
><arkm...@priv2.onet.pl> wrote:
[..]
>Some months ago I suggested to someone with the usual OE5 -> Agent
>question that MsgCvt might be useful but I never heard anything back
>(and forgot to check it out myself).
Actually I haven't tried it myself so I would be grateful to hear if
it worked.
Arkadiusz Mucha
Mark Lloyd
two programs mentioned below. The DBXtract program worked properly, creating an
.EML file for each email message and a .NWS file for each newsgroup post. I then
used MSGCVT with the following command line:
msgcvt -i *.eml -oum mymail
(assuming that 'MSGCVT' and the .EML files are in the current directory). I Run
agent and select 'File >> Import Messages' and locate the file produced above
(MYMAIL), click 'open' and it imports the messages. The only problem was that
the messages were not marked read, but that was easy to fix.
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000 03:41:14 +0200, Arkadiusz Mucha <arkm...@priv2.onet.pl>
wrote:
>On Fri, 07 Apr 2000 15:52:13 GMT, Mark Lloyd <mll...@godmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I am looking for a way to transfer messages from Outlook Express to Agent. I
>>have seen a few posts about a program on the web. This does NOT work. It is made
>>for '.MBX' files from Outlook, not the '.DBX' files that Outlook Express uses.
>
>You can use dbxtract from
>http://chattanooga.net/~scochran/DBXtract.htm
>to extract messages from Outlook Express folders.
>You can then cocatenate them into an mbox file that Agent can import
>using MsgCvt from
>http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/
>
>Do not use the *.* wildcard with MsgCvt as this program has a bug and
>will try to process the current directory. You should rather use
>expressions such as *.nws or *.eml
>
>Arkadiusz Mucha