Backing up mail in Outlook Express using Python

[Thomas Weholt]

Well, by searching the net a bit more I've found some pointers and as soon
as I found out where the mail was actually stored and that it's stored in
plain files, backing them up was easy.

Thanks anyway :-)

Best regards,
Thomas Weholt


"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
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> "Thomas Weholt" <thomas at gatsoft.no> wrote in message
> news:cGSu8.101$1kc.179320832 at news.telia.no...
> > I need to backup all my mail stored in Outlook Express. Can I use Python
> to
> > do this?
> >
> No reason why not, though I'm not sure why you'd want to, since the
message
> are just stored in files.
>
> You can find out where they are from the Maintenance tab on Tools |
Options
> (click the "Store Folder" button).
>
> I did adapt some code from Delphi to read the mailbox files, and can let
you
> have that if it would help, but sounds to me like a file copy is all
you're
> looking for.
>
> regards
>  Steve
>
>
>
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