.| Abandoning Outlook Express |
| PocoMail |
| Alternatives to Outlook Express |
| DBXtract.exe |
| Mbx2Mbox.pl |
| LibDBX (*.c) |
| oe2mbx.exe |
| Author |
| Licence |
This document discusses strategies for replacing Outlook Express with some other email client.
The instructions may well apply to Outlook, but I did not try them with Outlook.
I have recently switched to PocoMail, and am 100% satisfied with it.
See http://www.pocomail.com for a list of its many features.
I list here only a tiny number of those features:
If you install another email client, you can of course stop OE reading your mail, and then use OE to forward your already-received mail to yourself, and read it with the new email client.
Alternately, you can run a program to export your old mail directly into text files. A list of such programs follows.
This is the program I used to backup my OE-based mail.
Warning: You must create the output directories before running this program.
Do something like:
shell>md \oe.bak
shell>md \oe.bak\inbox
shell>md \oe.bak\sent
etc, and the run DBXtract.exe on each OE mailbox.
If you prefer using Perl programs, try this one.
Your run it from OE's directory like so (watch the wrap):
shell>cd "\WinNT\Profiles\Administrator\Application Data\Identities\
{F6694DE0-76D0-11D3-9D39-90B48097C1C3}\Microsoft\Outlook Express"
shell>perl Mbx2Mbox.pl -d Apache.dbx
but read the instructions!
If you prefer compiling your own version of this C code, try LibDBX. I did not try it.
When I run this, it simple opens and instantly closes a DOS window, so I can't say what it does. Hopefully it does nothing!
Ron Savage .
Home page: http://savage.net.au/index.html
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