I cannot find a way to import plain text email messages from a bespoke system
into Outlook Express.

OE seems only to import existing PST files, or a limited number of other
commercial packages.

Does anybody know how I can import these messages?

mjt

Windows version?

From what Mail Client are you attempting to import the messages, Martin?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Martin James Thornhill wrote:
I cannot find a way to import plain text email messages from a bespoke
system into Outlook Express.

OE seems only to import existing PST files, or a limited number of other
commercial packages.

Does anybody know how I can import these messages?

mjt

What format can the Bespoke e-mail system export to?

If you have individual text files (one per message) and they include the
full Internet mail headers, then you can rename the TXT files to EML
files (e.g. rename MESSAGE1.TXT to MESSAGE1.EML) and then drag-and-drop
the EML files into an open OE mail folder.

--

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


"Martin James Thornhill"
wrote in message
...
I cannot find a way to import plain text email messages from a bespoke
system
into Outlook Express.

OE seems only to import existing PST files, or a limited number of
other
commercial packages.

Does anybody know how I can import these messages?

mjt

You beat me to it. G

He can also bulk rename in a command window:

rename *.txt *.eml

Then dragndrop all of them from Win Explorer to an open OE folder.

steve

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
What format can the Bespoke e-mail system export to?

If you have individual text files (one per message) and they include the
full Internet mail headers, then you can rename the TXT files to EML files
(e.g. rename MESSAGE1.TXT to MESSAGE1.EML) and then drag-and-drop the EML
files into an open OE mail folder.

--

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


"Martin James Thornhill"
wrote in message
...
I cannot find a way to import plain text email messages from a bespoke
system
into Outlook Express.

OE seems only to import existing PST files, or a limited number of other
commercial packages.

Does anybody know how I can import these messages?

mjt

Windows 2000; the mail client is Turnpike v6. No, you'll not have heard of
it!

It exports all emails in plain text format, i.e. as they appeared on Unix
terminals... To:.. From:... Via:... Subject:.... and a whole host of header
crapola before getting to the message. Probably a character 255 to terminate
the message and the next message follows it immediately. Turnpike calls this
the "Berkeley milabox file, *.txt".

Turnpike currently holds my emails from 1999 to the present day, so it's a
huge database!

"PA Bear" wrote:

Windows version?

From what Mail Client are you attempting to import the messages, Martin?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Martin James Thornhill wrote:
I cannot find a way to import plain text email messages from a bespoke
system into Outlook Express.

OE seems only to import existing PST files, or a limited number of other
commercial packages.

Does anybody know how I can import these messages?

mjt

If all the messages are in one file, then that sounds like the MBOX
format.

MBOX File Format:
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html

Here is a utility with instructions that you can use to convert the
Netscape/Eudora MBOX format mail files to OE4 MBX files:
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/files/e2m.zip

You can then use one of the following two programs to convert the OE4
MBX files to EML files (one message per file). Then you can
drag-and-drop the EML files into open OE5+ mail folders.

OUTDUMP.EXE -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...es/outdump.zip
MBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/MBXtract/Default.aspx


--

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


"Martin James Thornhill"
wrote in message
...
Windows 2000; the mail client is Turnpike v6. No, you'll not have
heard of
it!

It exports all emails in plain text format, i.e. as they appeared on
Unix
terminals... To:.. From:... Via:... Subject:.... and a whole host of
header
crapola before getting to the message. Probably a character 255 to
terminate
the message and the next message follows it immediately. Turnpike
calls this
the "Berkeley milabox file, *.txt".

Turnpike currently holds my emails from 1999 to the present day, so
it's a
huge database!

"PA Bear" wrote:

Windows version?

From what Mail Client are you attempting to import the messages,
Martin?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP,
DTS-L.org

Martin James Thornhill wrote:
I cannot find a way to import plain text email messages from a
bespoke
system into Outlook Express.

OE seems only to import existing PST files, or a limited number of
other
commercial packages.

Does anybody know how I can import these messages?

mjt