[mso] Re: Exporting Mail

Err, the cataloger is intended to create a doc linking to files in a
chosen path. It's applicability here is for the situation in which you
decided to take the messages from your PST and drop them somewhere on
the file system directly.

Personally, I don't exporting the messages to yet still another DB
engine as having solved anything but people *Will* use what they are
familiar and comfortable with. Besides, coding is addictive, if
unhealthy, and doing this in Access is probably a pretty good way at
mimicking Outlook without actual delivery/routing functions...and even
that limitation is temporary.

My personal favorite way of managing old messages is similar to
Outlook's auto-archive feature...except this one works.<g> When cleaning
up the mail box, I create a new mail file(PST) and move the messages to
that new file. If I want, I can have this file loaded all the time as an
available archive and the PST file is portable from system to system.
It's a much more usable, reliable system than that used by OE.

The last method is concerning a script which I have given to Dian to
post for people's use. It's intent is to aid the people who have taken
the 'drag to a folder on the desktop' method by stripping any HTML
tagging and binary data supplied in MSG formatted files, leaving only
the plain-text content behind.

Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com 
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"


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> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michele B. Wong
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:36 PM
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> BlankI'm posting this to the group in case others are 
> interested in this as well. I'm a day late on this, but I've 
> been following the exporting thread since I need to do 
> something about the size of my mailboxes.  I went to Dian's 
> site and downloaded the cataloger.  I'm not clear on how to 
> use this.  Did I miss a readme file about this somewhere? 
> Also, in another group that I belong to, they talk about 
> exporting the mail to an access database.  Which method is 
> better as far as being able to retrieve information when I need it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michele B. Wong
> Reliable Cyber Solutions, LLC
> A Virtual Assistance Company
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