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On Mar 28, 2007, at 12:51 pm, Dave Sawyer (dsawyer121153) wrote:
Due to the long, long development time on eMA and the many problems with the recent
versions, I've reluctantly abandoned eMA in favor of another solution. I'd like to have all my
email archives in a single database, but the new solution only imports mbox folders. Does
anyone have any idea how to go about converting the eMA database to mbox? I can of
course convert the eMA database to the standard formats, but I can't find a way to get any
of files in any of those formats into an mbox file.
Anyone have any thoughts?
My reason for developing eMA was to get them out of the mbox and other formats that email applications use. There is no compatibility among them, and even their mbox formats vary is different ways from the standard form.
So I decided that the best way of doing that was to get them into a standard database, not out of it and back into one of those less inter-compatible ways.
I do not know what you mean about “converting the eMA database to the standard formats,” but not “into an mbox file.”
You also don’t mention whether you have FMP or AppleScript programming experience, so I don’t know where to start from.
So if you want advice on you attempted conversion, I really need more details.
Finally, I hope you look at the version of eMessage Archiver (beta 5) that I released today. It is near enough to what I want for the final version that I have been using it for months myself without problems (except when I mess it up, as in b4).
John
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