Re: OT: Mail archives

On 2024-10-12 14:06, Don Y wrote:

Lawyer asked me to dig up some email correspondence from
~20 years back.  Of course, any MUA under windows -- in
that era -- likely stored mail in a proprietary format.
 In my case, OE used dbx files which are tedious, at best,
to parse with a hex editor.  :<
 <http://www.mitec.cz/mailview.html> seems to do the trick
(though the UI is a bit cumbersome).
 I'll have to poke around their site to see if there are other
useful "goodies"...

The best way to export/import mail from/to different mail clients, is:
   - the source mails need to be on a MUA that supports IMAP.
   - copy the mail to a folder on any IMAP server available (it can be local to you, not internet).
   - on destination machine, copy the mail from the imap server to wherever you want it.
No need for translation or special import/export functions. Caveat: both originator and destinator softwares need to support IMAP, and you need an intermediate IMAP server.
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Cheers, Carlos.