On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:
On Jul 1, 2025, at 14:11, Kurt Wendt kwendt@pakoinc.com wrote:
I tried to look and see what I can do - to get you an .mbox file. But, I
could not figure out how to export that, and I even asked my IT guy here - and he didn't know either. He said it's Old technology stuff.
"Old technology" == "standards that email have had forever"
Just because MSFT figured out how to increase their Exchange storage requirements by creating a bloated new format, doesn't make it better.
FYI - I am using latest & greatest of Outlook here at work. If you have any pointers on how I could get you what you need - I'm all
Ears.
Looks like the only option would be plain text. I could parse that back into .mbox format, and then import it.
-- Ed Leafe
Google Takeout claims it can do mbox exports, using a label created to flag the mail messages, according to:
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-export-your-emails-from-gmail-as-mbox-files-...
I'll give it a whirl...
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