Re: Outlook Express Again
Re: Outlook Express Again
- Subject: Re: Outlook Express Again
- From: Jolly Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:13:08 -0500
On 10/18/2001 12:56 AM, "Neil D" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm back. I've managed to write a script that will make text files of all
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the mails in the Out Box folder of Outlook Express, and copy them to a
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designated folder within the Startup Disk. Thanks to Paul's help.
In case you are interested: Did you know that you can just drag messages to
a folder in the Finder from Outlook Express/Entourage? Outlook
Express/Entourage saves the email as a text file that holds the entire
message (including attachments). I have been using this method to back up
my email for ages; and I love it.
You can use a utility like FileTyper to change the creator to BBEdit so that
you can use BBEdit's wonderful grep searches to find emails in your archive.
And to get an attachment out, you just drag the text file over StuffIt
Expander. And if you want to put the email back into Outlook
Express/Entourage, you just change the creator back to Outlook
Express/Entourage and drag the message back into the program. Nifty. :)