Re: I want to archive oe mail

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> anon wrote:
>> Any suggestions for a program (free if possible) which will do the
>> following to my oe mail:
>>
>> 1 save individual folders I created in oe into individual archived
>> folders.
>
> Your OE .dbx files are in a proprietary MS compression of a proprietary
> MS db format.  They are 'reasonably' efficient if compacted.  Naturally
> there are all kinds of alternative compression schemes which can archive
> and compress the compressed files more compactly -- the degreee of
> compactness being affected by how fast you want the compression program
> to perform its duties - and the choice of compression formats also being
> slightly affected by how fast you want any further decompression to be
> performed.
>
>> 2 allow the archived mail to be read (and appear) like it
>> did when I received it.
>
> Do you mean to read it with something other than OE?
>

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Not necessarily - oe is fine.
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>> 3 allow me to open each archived mail in an oe like environment.
>
> But not OE?  I'm not quite clear whether or not you are wanting to have
> OE functionality without having OE.  But maybe you would be interested
> in the Express Archiver
> http://www.fileedge.com/Cat/Utilities/Backup/Express-Archiver.html
> "fully reads Outlook Express dbx files and lets you view, backup and
> export mails, news or all attachments in a few clicks."
>
>> 4 archived mail to contain the original date (header info) and be
>> listed in the original order (usually by date received.)
>
> If it is the .dbx file you are working with, that will be the case.  It
> will also be the case if you are converting the .dbx into a different
> format such as one of the unix mailbox or mbox formats.  Beware the
> incompatibilities between various mbox formats.
>
> There is also this ware made by MailNavigator
>
> http://www.mailnavigator.com/outlook-express-dbx-backup.html DBX
> Backup - effective tool for regular backuping and recovering of emails
> in Outlook Express folders.
>
> http://www.mailnavigator.com/read_outlook_express_dbx_files.html
> Mailbox Reader for Outlook Express DBX file format
>
>> 5 the archiving operation to semi automated so that I do not have to
>> manually open each and every subfolder to get the mail archived (I
>> have many, many folders.)
>
> If it were me doing it, I would keep things as .dbx files and develop an
> backup scheme for backing up the folder of all of the .dbx files,
> including folders.dbx  -- whether your backup program chooses to
> compress the folder of .dbx files is an option.  You will keep things
> 'tighter' if you compact all of your .dbx folders before you back them
> up.
>

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That sound like the best/easiest method.

Do you mean that I would just make a copy of the dbx files and store them in 
some folder?

How would I 'read' the files (in oe or something else.)

If when I read the files, they look like they did in the original oe 
display, that is the best of all worlds.

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