| From: | Dauber |
| Date: | 4 Apr 2001 at 17:11:35 |
| Subject: | Re: email transfers |
--- Neil Bothwick <neil@wirenet.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Also, where the hell does OE store its messages?!?
>
> > Its not like YAM, it doesn't store them in individual files
> (because OE is,
> > as Matt would say, a crock of sh*t ;) it stores them in one huge
> "swapfile"
> > kinda thing, which makes importing/exporting them very difficult.
>
> A single file is the standard way of storing mail. It doesn't make
> import/export difficult. That's caused by the lack of standard
> import/export commands in the software.
Are we all talking about the same OE?? The one that comes standard with
Winblows??
>From my experience, OE stores e-mails in individual files named:
[subject line].eml
If you were to open these in a text editor, you'll get some garbage,
but the e-mail messages are in these files. I know from experience. You
just won't be able to import them directly into YAM.
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