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**paul**

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"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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Then you probably want something like this since I would guess you are
going to a mail program that supports MBOX format.
Emailchemy Conversion Utility
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/

or you want some other EML to MBOX converter.

If you want free, the attached BAT file will create an MBOX file from EML
files (after some editing).

You can use Drag-and-Drop to save multiple e-mail messages at a time.

- Open the Windows File Explorer to the folder (directory) that you want
to save the messages to (e.g. C:\EML-TEMP). For minimal confusion, the
folder should be empty or only used for saving mail messages.
- In Outlook Express highlight the desired messages (Ctrl-Click or
Shift-Click)
- While holding down the Left mouse button, drag the messages to the
Explorer window. If the Explorer window is not visible, drag to the
Taskbar button for Explorer, keep holding the left mouse button down until
Explorer moves to the front, then complete the drag to the Explorer window
and then release the Left mouse button.
- Complication: Messages are saved as *.EML files where the first part of
the file name is the message's subject. If you save multiple messages in
one drag-and drop operation, OE will automatically number the subsequent
messages with identical subject to make the name unique. But if you later
save additional messages with the same subject it will start the numbering
process over again and you will get a "Confirm File Replace" dialog for
the duplicate names. When this happens, leave the confirm dialog and
switch to the Windows File Explorer. Rename the first file (e.g. rename
"The Subject.EML" to "The Subject-1.EML"). Then switch back to the
Confirm dialog and click on YES. The new message will get saved with the
original name and the previous message will still be there with the new
name.
- You can then use the EML2TXT.BAT file to combine the *.EML messages into
a single Text file. You will probably want to make some changes, such as
the EML directory. See the comments (REM statements) in the file.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"paul" wrote in message
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more reasons to dislike ms. I m migrating to Linux.

thanks,
paul

"Frank Slootweg" wrote in message
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paul wrote:
sorry. File~Export~Messages... Resulted in quoted error message
below.

File~Export~Address Book... Works fine.

You can only Export Messages to Outlook or Exchange (as the popup
window tells you ("This will export messages from Outlook Express to
Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange"/[OK][Cancel])). For this to
work, you have to have Outlook/Exchange installed on the (same)
computer. You probably don't and the MAPI error message is telling you
that, albeit in a very cryptic way.

As to why you can only export to other Microsoft products? Can you say
"lock in"?

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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What are you trying to export?

Start by visiting Windows Updates. You are running a very old and
less
secure version of OE. Of all the updates you are missing, no less
than
four have a direct effect on OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"paul" wrote in message
.. .
Dialog box:
The export could not be performed.
An error occurred while initializing MAPI.
OK

Can someone help me fix this?

Tks,
paul