Backing up mail in Outlook Express using Python

[Noah]

I'd be interested to see that Delphi code.
As far as I could tell the messages in OE
are binary -- and not just simple binary
headers around the message texts.
Does your Delphi code use COM to get the
messages out of Outlook?

Yours,
Noah

-----Original Message-----
From: python-list-admin at python.org
[mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Steve Holden
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:14 AM
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Subject: Re: Backing up mail in Outlook Express using Python


"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