how can I rescue my email from the formats of Netscape and Outlook Express

On November 12 I posted and asked if there was a way to get my email
out of Netscape or Outlook Express and into plain text. I'd pay good
money for such a program, and wondered if someone had already created
such a thing. An interesting conversation ensued, but my question was
never answered. The discusssion was here (in Google Groups):

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.misc/browse_frm/thr ead/552d6dc16f8c2684/ca908f2f7c1d978b?lnk=arm#ca908f2f7c1d97 8b

I'm thinking of hiring someone who can write a program for me to do
this. I need a program that can go through my existing email and make
it into plain text. But before I hired anyone, I wanted to ask again if
anyone knew of a program that could do this for me.

How do I get my existing email into plain text?

Re: how can I rescue my email from the formats of Netscape and Outlook Express

Jake Barnes wrote:
> On November 12 I posted and asked if there was a way to get my email
> out of Netscape or Outlook Express and into plain text. I'd pay good
> money for such a program, and wondered if someone had already created
> such a thing. An interesting conversation ensued, but my question was
> never answered.

Your question *was* answered, so I suggest you re-read the thread,
specifically Sam's response and mine, which was:

Me> As Sam mentioned, Thunderbird already uses mbox format and it can
Me> import Outlook Express folders (at least Netscape can), so problem
Me> solved.

Your Thunderbird (you said "Thunderbird", not "Netscape") folders are
already in mbox format, which is plain text format, so just *copy* (not
'export') the files which contain your Thunderbird folders (without the
index files).

For Outlook Express: As I said, Thunderbird can import Outlook Express
folders, so use Thunderbird to import your Outlook Express folders and
then use to above mentioned procedure to copy the Thunderbird folders.

If you have *additional* questions, i.e. some of the answers were
unclear to you, then *ask*, but please don't keep silent for over a
month (i.e. you never even responded) and then say that your question
was not answered when it clearly was!

> The discusssion was here (in Google Groups):
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.misc/browse_frm/thr ead/552d6dc16f8c2684/ca908f2f7c1d978b?lnk=arm#ca908f2f7c1d97 8b
>
> I'm thinking of hiring someone who can write a program for me to do
> this. I need a program that can go through my existing email and make
> it into plain text. But before I hired anyone, I wanted to ask again if
> anyone knew of a program that could do this for me.
>
> How do I get my existing email into plain text?

See above and before.

Re: how can I rescue my email from the formats of Netscape and Outlook Express

In article <1135096852.314244.178230@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
"Jake Barnes" wrote:

> How do I get my existing email into plain text?

See http://www.emailman.com/conversion and try the Aid4Mail link.

"Another option lets you save your email without file attachments or, if
you want to save even more disk space, as plain text messages."

-Andrew

--
Andrew Starr
eMailman(r): http://www.emailman.com
NewsReaders(sm): http://www.newsreaders.com
Both of the above now have forums (newsreader or web access)!