Reading Microsoft Outlook Express .dbx files
Tim Peters
tim.one at home.com
Wed Jan 10 15:51:44 EST 2001
[Steve Holden]
> ...
> The problem with the usual techniques of saving as text, and some
> mailing solutions, is that attachments are frequently ignored.
Sorry, no idea what that means. Ignored by whom? If I tell Outlook to mail
an attachment, Outlook does not ignore my suggestion <wink>. On the other
end, the attachment Outlook generates is ignored only if the receiver
intentionally ignores it.
> I overcame the inability to deal with .pst files by importing
> from Outlook to OE.
I don't recall the details now, but last time I tried that I found that
"some kinds" of info got lost systematically during Outlook -> OE transfers.
So test that very carefully. May have had something to do with HTML mail in
particular.
> I also imported my Netscape mail, though I had already managed
> to deal with that in Python.
Speaking of which, I believe some popular (with everyone but me <wink>)
non-MS Windows email clients offer to import your OE mail stores. Perhaps
even Netscape. So that's more code you could look at.
> all-my-eggs-now-firmly-in-one-basket-ly y'rs - steve
just-don't-make-your-basket-so-full-that-bill-gates-gets-
envious<wink>-ly y'rs - tim
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