Hi,

Could someone suggest the best way to convert the contents of the local
OutlookExpress news/mail folders into text files?

The idea, of course, is to avoid manually editing each and every message.

I use Windows XP Professional and OutlookExpress 6

Thnx,

Andre

Drag/drop the contents of the local mail folder into a Windows folder you
create on your Desktop. Then go to the folder on your Desktop containing
the EML files, select them all (Ctrl+A), right click on one, and select
rename and change *ONLY* the extension of the files from EML to TXT.
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"AW" <one_at_large@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Could someone suggest the best way to convert the contents of the local
> OutlookExpress news/mail folders into text files?
>
> The idea, of course, is to avoid manually editing each and every message.
>
> I use Windows XP Professional and OutlookExpress 6
>
> Thnx,
>
> Andre
>
>
>

In addition to what Jim suggested, you can select several messages and then
go to Message | Combine and Decode and it will give one big text file, but
the headers will be missing.

You can also get something like DBXtract and extract the messages as eml
files and then just rename the files to txt.

steve

"AW" <one_at_large@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:11oefn02u7lsqa6@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi,
>
> Could someone suggest the best way to convert the contents of the local
> OutlookExpress news/mail folders into text files?
>
> The idea, of course, is to avoid manually editing each and every message.
>
> I use Windows XP Professional and OutlookExpress 6
>
> Thnx,
>
> Andre
>
>
>

AW wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone suggest the best way to convert the contents of the
> local OutlookExpress news/mail folders into text files?
>
> The idea, of course, is to avoid manually editing each and every
> message.
>
> I use Windows XP Professional and OutlookExpress 6
>
> Thnx,
>
> Andre

The best way to do what you are asking is to use DBXtract. It only costs $5
and it works. I did not write the program (Steve did), but I highly
recommend it. The site (www.oehelp.com) also offers DBXpress which is much
faster and can do more. Steve has several other very useful tools for OE.

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