Reading Microsoft Outlook Express .dbx files

[Steve Holden]

"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
news:93k0kd$9rf$1 at panix2.panix.com...
> In article <mailman.979199831.22069.python-list at python.org>,
> Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
> >
> >Have found that of only marginal use, and only then for plain-text msgs.
> >Still the case that, to the best of my knowledge, while recent Outlooks
deal
> >with msgs in std Internet format fine, it's not possible to get them back
in
> >that format from Outlook (as the original questioner wanted).
>
> IIRC correctly, it's not possible from Outlook, but it *is* possible
> from Exchange Server.  If you set up Exchange as a POP3 server and move
> the messages to a folder that you can access, any POP3 client can now
> get the raw messages (*don't* ask me for the details, it's been two
> years and a job ago).

Which leaves me, as an (ex-)Outlook user who used it mostly for Internet
mail, with the same old "no support is available". Sheesh, you'd think some
comanies were planning world domination the way they ignore old-established
standards like RFC822.

not-to-mention-RFC823-for-long-enough-ly y'rs  - steve