Re: downloading hotmail
Re: downloading hotmail
- Subject: Re: downloading hotmail
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:53:26 -0800
On 1/30/02 11:34 PM, "Peter Long" <email@hidden> wrote:
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My daughter has used hotmail and accumulated hundreds of emails,
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reaching her limit more frequently than she can clear her mailboxes.
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And she's been using her account as her storage of ones she doesn't
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want to loose.
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Hotmail seems to have no facility to select a bunch and say download
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to a single file, or even forward the selected messages in bulk. I've
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only been able to open each individual message and forward to myself,
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where I can handle it easily in Eudora.
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Is there any hope that applescript could do this, or is it
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complicated by hotmail's database setup?
The scriptability depends on what app you're using. Outlook Express (free)
has native support for Hotmail, so its folders all appear as in the app
itself. The simplest thing would just be to select all the messages in each
folder and drag them to a local OE folder, which would copy them there and
be accessible. She could continue to reply to them directly from within OE.
Or (much slower) you could script the headers and content of each message to
a text file. In fact there's already a script by Allen Watson to do that at
AppleScript Central
<
http://www.applescriptcentral.com/>
I think you can take your pick of what text editor to use, or SimpleText.
Easiest of all would be Entourage (expensive) where you can just drag any
folder, including Hotmail, to the desktop and it becomes an mbox text file
of all the messages, just like that. It can be opened in any text editor to
read, and you can drag it back in to Entourage whenever you want and it
becomes a local mail folder.
I'm sure you'll here of other alternatives, too.
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Paul Berkowitz