Not sure if you have a typo there. Your subject and original message
mention DBX. Now you mention MBX.

OE5 and above use DBX files. MBX files are from OE4.

There are utilities for MBX files as well, it that's what you really
have are some old OE4 files.

- OUTDUMP for IE3 Internet Mail and IE4 Outlook Express *.MBX files.
(also includes EML2TXT.BAT)
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...es/outdump.zip
- MBXtract for IE4 Outlook Express *.MBX files.
MBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/MBXtract/Default.aspx

All the DBX and MBX extract programs produce EML files. These are
simple text files with full headers.

But you can also 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 (see above) 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.


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


"jd" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the suggestion

These are for reading in OE6 - I want to trake the msgs stored in OE6
MBX
files and convert the whole file into a simple contiguous txt file
that is
suitable for parsing.

--
David



|
| "jd" wrote in message
| ...
|| Anyone know of a utility which will read OE6 dbx files and output
|| simple txt
|| files (full header + msg text) - I need to extract a lot of data
and
|| there has to be something faster and easier than manual processing.
||
|| TIA
||

In ,
Bruce Hagen spake thus :
| Not sure what you are asking as Outlook Express is the utility that
| reads the dbx files.
|
| Perhaps you have something like this in mind?
|
| DBXtract:
| http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
|
| DBXpress: {much faster for large files}
| http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx


Thanks for the suggestion

These are for reading/repairing in OE6 - I want to take the msgs
stored in
OE6 MBX files and convert the whole file into a simple contiguous txt
file
that is suitable for parsing.

--
David