Mike,

This is really very comprehensive and helpful. THANKS for taking the time!!

John

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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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 might also be interested in one of these programs:
DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
DBXpress - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
DBXtend - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtend/Default.aspx

OEX Enhancements - Import/Export/Resend/Duplicates/Attachments, etc.
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx

DbxConv - DBX to MBOX/EML converter by Ulrich Krebs
http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html

Outlook Express Extraction
http://macallan.club.fr/index.htm


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


"JMF" wrote in message
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I would like to take a dbx file and "separate" all the messages into
separate eml files, one per message, into a directory.

Somebody have pointers to utilities or techniques for getting this job
done?

Thanks!

John