In ,
Michael Santovec spake thus :
| 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.
|
| ||
||
|||
||| "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
||
||
| "jd" wrote in message
| ...


|| 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

In ,
Michael Santovec spake thus :
| 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.

Apologies - I did mean DBX/OE6 files as originally stated - must have been a
senior moment ;-)

Thans for the help

--
David