Reading Microsoft Outlook Express .dbx files

[Eduard Hiti]

Go to www.freshmeat.net and type 'outlook' into the find box. You'll get
links to various Outlook .dbx converters which should be open sourced. Maybe
those will give you an idea about how to proceed.

Eduard

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
news:h7_66.8949$X3.91000 at e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com...
| In my trek through the various mail packages the Windoze user may be
| confronted with I am currently battling with Outlook Express.  It's
actually
| rather better than I feared.
|
| Its native folder format appears to be a ".dbx" file, about which I have
no
| information.  Does any reader have experience with either reading these
| files, or automating OEx to provide them to a Python program in
RFC822-style
| formats?
|
| Or, indeed, any other way of extracting mail items from the files created
by
| OEx.
|
| regards
|  Steve
| --
| Tools, training and technology can help you meet your information needs
|
|