Mail and address format conversions

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Address Magic Personal from Connected Software, converts between over 30 address book formats and 12 email formats. Supported applications include Outlook, Lotus Notes, Eudora, Microsoft Exchange Server, Global Address List (GAL), Pine, Thunderbird, Windows Address Book (WAB), the Palm Desktop, Pegasus, Opera, GroupWise, and vCard. This commercial product emphasizes reliability and three click operation. Free demo available. Connected Software has been an eMailman partner since 1999.

• Address Magic Enterprise converts address books, contacts, and email messages between Microsoft Outlook, GroupWise, Lotus Notes, Eudora and Thunderbird. It supports all the features of Address Magic Personal and adds unattended operation, centralized logging, Outlook PST file archiving, and direct access to Exchange mailboxes. It has been used in over 60 countries for migrations from 50 to 50,000 mailboxes. Free demo available.

Emailchemy converts files and mailboxes from the following applications to standard formats that most applications can use: AOL for Windows, Claris Emailer 1 and 2, CompuServe Classic for Macintosh, CompuServe 2000 for Windows, Entourage, Eudora, Mac OS X Mail, Mozilla, Mulberry, Musashi, Neoplanet, Netscape, Opera, Outlook Express, PowerTalk/AOCE, QuickMail Pro, Thunderbird, and anything based on RFC-2822 or mbox formats. Emailchemy has an embedded IMAP server for importing converted mail into any IMAP-capable email client.

ePreserver, from Connected Software, "can migrate a user's AOL address book, email and favorites places to Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express." (for Windows)

Aid4Mail is a user-friendly Windows tool that helps you migrate your messages to a different mail client, export email for viewing through Internet Explorer, MS Excel, or a database, convert messages to extract or re-insert attachments, archive mail folders to save space or for compliance with legal requirements, and lots more. It supports more than 20 mail clients and mailbox formats, including MS Outlook, and processes all messages without losing any information, including those with file attachments and embedded contents like pictures and background images. You can also extract names and email addresses of people that have been corresponding with you. This feature is ideal if you need to rebuild an address book or create a mailing list.

• NOTE: Aid4Mail is software that will convert and archive many different types of mailboxes. If you wish to provide a sample personal filing cabinet (.pfc) file to the author of Aid4Mail to help him possibly add AOL to the list of formats that can be converted, please let me know

Amber Conversion and Merging Software from ProcessText Group will convert messages from many different e-mail programs to many different formats.

MailSteward by pubblog.com for Mac OS X. Will archive your mail.app mail into a relational database, import most mbox format (Eudora, Entourage and other) mail files, and will work with POP, IMAP, and .mac folders stored locally in mail.app.

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Contents:

• Consultants
• Address Books
  • Mac
  • Windows
  • other and cross platform
• Mailboxes to Mailboxes
  • Mac
  • Windows
  • other and cross platform
• Mailboxes to database or HTML
  • Mac
  • Windows
  • other and cross platform

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Consultants:

• CompuSven "provides professional services for companies migrating to and from e-mail systems such as Microsoft Exchange (5.5 and 2000), Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise, Lotus cc:Mail, Fischer Emc2/TAO , H&W SYSM, Netscape's Messaging Server and iPlanet, OpenWave's InterMail and other IMAP4/LDAP compliant products. CompuSven provides migration to and from each of these systems, and specializes in the development of processes and products that enable easy migration even from proprietary e-mail and calendaring systems. If the system you are migrating to or from is not listed here, CompuSven Professional Services will provide you with a fixed cost, fixed time proposal to get your data and applications migrated."
• Gens Software Ltd "If you are planning to migrate from one E-Mail system to another, please give us a call. We will be happy to help you!"
• John Hopper, who wrote Address Book Converter is available for consulting on address book conversion.
• InterGuru does custom address book conversions from samples and also sells site licenses of his address book conversion software. His E-mail address conversion page does conversions to and from many formats on multiple platforms.
• United Messaging. Mailgration rapidly transitions your organization from your current platform to the latest versions of cc: mail, Lotus Notes and Domino, Microsoft Exchange, or Internet-standards mail -- on your systems or ours.
• Wingra "From the initial planning phases to the actual migration, Wingra's team of highly skilled professionals guides you through the migration process." Also see their page of Migration Solutions for ASPs

Address Book (Mac):

• Address Book Converter 2.0 is an email conversion utility that converts Address Books from Netscape Communicator format into Eudora format. Since it is web - based, it is very simple to use and works for both Macintosh and Windows platforms. ABConverter will convert both individual Address Book entries and lists comprised of many individual listings. Used by hundreds of people over the past 3 years, it has converted thousands of Address Book entries successfully for those switching from Netscape products to Eudora for their email.
• Address Book Extractor from Apple Computer From Apple's site: "This utility quickly exports all the addresses from the AOL 3.0 address book to a file that can be imported by Claris Emailer 2.0. This utility is only necessary with the 3.0 version of AOL software; access to previous AOL address books is built into Claris Emailer 2.0." Notes: I've heard that it works with AOL 4.0. Also, after exporting to Emailer format, you could use one of the other tools here to convert from Emailer to Eudora, etc.
• Address Book to CSV Exporter by Antonio Lorè. "This Mac OS X utility allows the user to export his own Address Book in a CSV file (Comma Separated Value) that suits the 'Import contacts' function on GMail just following three steps."
• Contact This does Entourage, Outlook (Mac or Win), and Outlook Express (Mac or Win) to a PIM for use with any e-mail program on your Mac.
• E2A: Eudora to Addressbook Group Importer (for use with mail.app or anywhere else you use OS X's Address book).
• Emailer2Eudora by VivaLaData is a script to convert exported Emailer address books (use the export address book command in Emailer's file menu) to Eudora nicknames. Requires Acme Script Widgets and File I/O (download these 2 scripting additions, put them in the "Scripting Additions" folder in your System Folder, and reboot.) The resulting nickname is the first name and last name combined. If that would result in a duplicate nickname, the entry is skipped; a future version will allow for renaming possible duplicates. Script may ask you to find Eudora Pro, but it should work with Eudora Light as well. Note that Emailer's export function only exports individual entries, not groups.
• Emailer2Eudora@ also converts Emailer addresses to Eudora format.
• EAC (Emailer Address Converter) by MacManiac software. EGC (Emailer Group Converter) will convert groups.
• InterGuru's E-mail Address Book Conversions (Mac OS, Unix, Windows, etc.). This service will convert e-mail address lists between Eudora address books, Pine address books, Elm address files, Pegasus address files ( Europe and USA ) address files (including Compuserve), databases and spreadsheets Compuserve, Spry, Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Internet Mail, ldif formatted file, Netscape address books, and Claris Emailer. Other conversions are being developed.
• Eudora Mailbox Cleaner "is a simple drag'n'drop application which prepares Eudora mailboxes for proper importing into Mail.app and Eudora nickname files for import into Address Book."
• Eudora vCard Export by Andreas Amann converts Eudora nicknames to vCards which can then easily be imported into other programs (MacOS X Address Book, Palm Desktop, ...) or moved to your iPod.
• MkEudoraMbox.auto (Mac) will convert QuickMail LAN filed mail folders into Eudora mailboxes. Also see QMAB Converter which will convert QuickMail LAN address books and groups into Eudora nickname files.
• Outlook Express to vCard to allow you to import your OE contacts into OS X's address book.
• QuickMail to Eudora

Address Books (Windows):

• ACtoCDF (AOL Contacts to Comma Deliminated File) lets you convert your AOL address book to a Comma Deliminated File (comma separated values) which can then be imported into Outlook Express, Outlook, or other address book or contacts applications.
• Address Book Converter 2.0 is an email conversion utility that converts Address Books from Netscape Communicator format into Eudora format. Since it is web - based, it is very simple to use and works for both Macintosh and Windows platforms. ABConverter will convert both individual Address Book entries and lists comprised of many individual listings. Used by hundreds of people over the past 3 years, it has converted thousands of Address Book entries successfully for those switching from Netscape products to Eudora for their email.
• Address Book-to-HTML by Anthony Greene converts a Eudora address book file to an HTML page. (I would recommend password protecting the web directory you put the resulting web page in; handy for accessing your address book from around the world.)
• Address Magic Personal Edition, from Connected Software, converts email address books between Outlook 97/98/2000/2002, Outlook Express, Windows Address Book (WAB), Outlook Personal Address Book (PAB), Eudora Light/Pro, Microsoft Exchange Server, Global Address List (GAL), Pine, Lotus Notes, Netscape 4.x, AOL 7, the Palm Desktop, Opera 6, and GroupWise. Converts just about all contact info, including distribution lists! This commercial product emphasizes reliability and three click operation. Free demo available.
  • Address Magic Enterprise Edition converts address books AND mailboxes. It "is your enterprise solution to the migration of client-side address books, contacts lists, and email messages between Netscape, GroupWise, Lotus Notes, Eudora and Outlook." major version and is has been used in countries around the world for migrations from 50 to 50,000 mailboxes.
• AOLeave by Duncan Mackenzie exports your AOL address book and bookmarks (favorite places). Mailboxes (personal filing cabinet) in alpha testing.
• Dawn by Boris Zakharin. Most major E-Mail programs, including Netscape, Outlook, Eudora, Pegasus and more are now supported directly. Available in Windows and Unix.
• EConv (Windows) by A.N.D. Technologies will convert between Eudora and Pegasus (either direction) and handles mailboxes, mailing lists, address books, nicknames, signatures, and .INI files.
• ePreserver, from Connected Software, "can migrate a user's AOL address book, email and favorites places to Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express." (for Windows)
• Eudora2Palm "easily converts Eudora 4.x Nickname files to a text tab or comma delimited file to be imported into the 3ComTM Palm Desktop¨, version 3.0. OR to an HTML file which can be viewed in any common web browser."
• InterGuru's E-mail Address Book Conversions (Mac OS, Unix, Windows, etc.). This service will convert e-mail address lists between Eudora address books, AOL, Pine address books, Elm address files, Pegasus address files ( Europe and USA ) address files (including Compuserve), databases and spreadsheets Compuserve, Spry, Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Internet Mail, ldif formatted file, Netscape address books, and Claris Emailer. Other conversions are being developed.
• Lotus information on migrating to Lotus products
• Nick.exe by Ed Gunderson converts Netscape 4.7 address book to Eudora 4.3
• Pegasus Mail Addons has many converters (both directions)
• Pegasus Mail Converter by David Rahmel is an easy to use program that converts from Pegasus to Eudora. The Windows version does mailboxes, address lists, and signatures. The Mac OS version does mailboxes.

Address Books (Other and cross platform)

• Address Book Converter 2.0 is an email conversion utility that converts Address Books from Netscape Communicator format into Eudora format. Since it is web - based, it is very simple to use and works for both Macintosh and Windows platforms. ABConverter will convert both individual Address Book entries and lists comprised of many individual listings. Used by hundreds of people over the past 3 years, it has converted thousands of Address Book entries successfully for those switching from Netscape products to Eudora for their email.
• Contact This does Entourage, Outlook (Mac or Win), and Outlook Express (Mac or Win) to a PIM for use with any e-mail program on your Mac.
• Dawn by Boris Zakharin. Most major E-Mail programs, including Netscape, Outlook, Eudora, Pegasus and more are now supported directly. Available in Windows and Unix.
• Eudora2Palm "easily converts Eudora 4.x Nickname files to a text tab or comma delimited file to be imported into the 3ComTM Palm Desktop¨, version 3.0. OR to an HTML file which can be viewed in any common web browser."
• InterGuru's E-mail Address Book Conversions (Mac OS, Unix, Windows, etc.). This service will convert e-mail address lists between Eudora address books, Pine address books, Elm address files, Pegasus address files ( Europe and USA ) address files (including Compuserve), databases and spreadsheets Compuserve, Spry, Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Internet Mail, ldif formatted file, Netscape address books, and Claris Emailer. Other conversions are being developed.
• KMailCvt for KDE/KMail supports converting Eudora, Netscape, and Exchange Addressbooks to K format, and Outlook Express 4/5 folders to KMail.
• MailConverter (Mac) by R Shapiro, is available at HyperArchive. MailConverter is a utility which converts disparate mail and mail-like formats into sendmail format, suitable for use with Eudora or Z-Mail. It will also create and burst digests, and import Pine and MacEMail nickname files. Read the abstract for more information, including which formats of mail files and nicknames it converts.
• OE/Entourage Exporter/Importer by Bill Wright "to move email messages and contact lists from Outlook Express 5 or Entourage between your Mac to Outlook Express 5.5 (or Outlook) on Windows." Can also import Win OE mailboxes to Mac.
• Paul Berkowitz' OE/Entourage scripts for exporting Mac to Mac or Mac to Win
• PINE to Maildrop
• Trianii by Henrik Edlund "is a script which will create a Pine address book (in .addressbook format) from an LDAP directory. Trianii is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion."

Messages/Mailboxes: (Mac)

• Emailchemy by Weird Kid Software reads email from the proprietary formats of popular email applications and converts it to standard, portable formats that any application can use. Emailchemy 1.2 supports Eudora (Mac and Win), Netscape (Mac and Win), Mozilla, PowerTalk, Claris Emailer, Outlook Express for Windows and Macintosh, and QuickMail Pro. Versions are available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux/UNIX.
• EMail Client to Claris EMailer converts std. mailboxes to EMailer format.
• Entourage: Eudora Export by Allen Watson. alternate url) exports selected messages to Eudora format. (Entourage should export to mbox, but apparently is doing something unrecognizable...)
• Eudora Mailbox Cleaner "is a simple drag'n'drop application which prepares Eudora mailboxes for proper importing into Mail.app and Eudora nickname files for import into Address Book."
• Eudora to Powermail
• Fix Eudora/Netscape Import for Entourage by David Cortright. (Entourage accidentally marks imported sent msgs. in bold. This unbolds them.)
• Import Emailer Signatures by Omar Shahine, will convert Emailer signatures to Outlook Express.
• Import from mail to Eudora Applescript by John Delacour. With Eudora closed, control-click on the Eudora application icon and navigate to the Scripts folder. Place this script in it. Restart Eudora and the script will be available from the "scripts" pulldown menu.
• MailConverter (Mac) by R Shapiro, is available at HyperArchive. MailConverter is a utility which converts disparate mail and mail-like formats into sendmail format, suitable for use with Eudora or Z-Mail. It will also create and burst digests, and import Pine and MacEMail nickname files. Read the abstract for more information, including which formats of mail files and nicknames it converts.
• Mail Import Script imports into mail.app from Netscape Communicator 4.x, Eudora 5.x, Outlook Express 5.x, Microsoft Entourage, Claris Emailer 2.x. "The scripts may work with older versions of these programs, but have not been tested with them."
• Pegasus Mail Converter by David Rahmel is an easy to use program that converts from Pegasus to Eudora. The Windows version does mailboxes, address lists, and signatures. The Mac OS version does mailboxes.
• MkEudoraMbox.auto (Mac) will convert QuickMail LAN filed mail folders into Eudora mailboxes. Also see QMAB Converter which will convert QuickMail LAN address books and groups into Eudora nickname files.
• QMPtoMBOX is a QuickMail Pro to mbox (unix/Mail.app/Eudora) converter
• R. Shapiro's Applescripts!
  • Outlook Express 4.5 scripts will import/export Eudora messages (or those using the same format, including Netscape), as well as burst and create digests, and some other scripts.
  • FogCity's Emailer 2.0 Utilities page has his scripts to import/export Eudora and similar format mailboxes to/from Emailer.
• QuickMail to Eudora conversion utilities
• QuickMail Migration by Gens Software Ltd, converts QuickMail to Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, or IMAP4 servers. "Both PC and MAC platforms are supported. The QuickMail Migration program works with both QuickMail LAN and QuickMail PRO versions."

Messages/Mailboxes: (Win)

• Address Magic Enterprise Edition from Connected Software converts address books AND mailboxes. It "is your enterprise solution to the migration of client-side address books, contacts lists, and email messages between Netscape, GroupWise, Lotus Notes, Eudora and Outlook." major version and is has been used in countries around the world for migrations from 50 to 50,000 mailboxes.
• Aid4Mail is a user-friendly Windows tool that helps you migrate your messages to a different mail client, export email for viewing through Internet Explorer, MS Excel, or a database, convert messages to extract or re-insert attachments, archive mail folders to save space or for compliance with legal requirements, and lots more. It supports more than 20 mail clients and mailbox formats, including MS Outlook, and processes all messages without losing any information, including those with file attachments and embedded contents like pictures and background images. You can also extract names and email addresses of people that have been corresponding with you. This feature is ideal if you need to rebuild an address book or create a mailing list.


• Amber Conversion and Merging Software from ProcessText Group will convert messages from many different e-mail programs to many different formats.
• AOLeave by Duncan Mackenzie exports your AOL address book and bookmarks (favorite places). Mailboxes (personal filing cabinet) in alpha testing.


• AOL PFC Conversion service by Password Crackers, Inc. "Password Crackers, Inc. offers a conversion service to convert the AOL proprietary Personal Filing Cabinet (.pfc) to either text format (.txt), Netscape¨ format, or Microsoft Outlook¨ format (.pst) so that users can access these email items without using AOL¨.Ê All Personal Filing Cabinet (.pfc) email items can be converted to either .pst or .txt formats. Newsgroup postings (if any) can only be converted to .txt or Netscape¨ format. We do not convert the list of downloaded files."


• ComAxis Technology (UniAccess product) has software and services to convert to and from cc:Mail, Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, Netscape , Lotus Notes, GroupWise, DaVinci e-MAIL, Eudora, ExpressIT, Pegasus, Notework, HTML. Also, their Archive Viewer for cc:Mail lets you view your old cc:mail archives if you don't feel like converting them.


• EConv (Windows) by A.N.D. Technologies will convert between Eudora and Pegasus (either direction) and handles mailboxes, mailing lists, address books, nicknames, signatures, and .INI files.


• Emailchemy by Weird Kid Software reads email from the proprietary formats of popular email applications and converts it to standard, portable formats that any application can use. Emailchemy 1.2 supports Eudora (Mac and Win), Netscape (Mac and Win), Mozilla, PowerTalk, Claris Emailer, Outlook Express for Windows and Macintosh, and QuickMail Pro. Versions are available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux/UNIX.


• E-mail Shuttle by CompuSven -- "Industrial-Strength E-Mail Migration" -- "migrates bulletin boards, conferences, calendars, mail lists, forms, and synchronizes public data between bulletin boards and public folders or discussion databases when required. Whether your users are coming from cc:Mail, GroupWise 5.x-6.x, Exchange 5.5, Domino 4.x-6.x, mainframe systems Emc2/TAO or H&W SYSM, or any e-mail system, CompuSven can migrate the data."


• ePreserver, from Connected Software, "can migrate a user's AOL address book, email and favorites places to Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express." (for Windows)


• Eudora Migration Utilities by Qualcomm converts address books and messages from cc:Mail and Netscape to Eudora WorldMail server format.


• Eudora to MS Mail (another one)


• Exporting From Outlook Express is an instructional/technical page by Brett Handley.


• ForMorph by fkeeps.com will import a variety of formats and export to these standard formats easily importable by many programs.


• Groupwise to Exchange conversion info


• GSS Migration Wizard cc:mail to Netscape. Allows both server-based and end-user oriented migrations.


• Lotus Notes migration page for Groupwise, cc:mail, Exchange, Eudora or Netscape to Lotus Notes


• Lotus Notes export solutions from Kim Beros consulting.
• Mail Mover by Simpler-Webb, Inc., for converting from HP OpenMail to Exchange.


• mbox2mail by David Coppit converts Outlook Express .mbx files into standard mail files that programs like Pine, Eudora, and Netscape can parse


• Microsoft Internet Mail and Outlook Express to Eudora Converter


• Netscape Migration Toolkit converts from a variety of Windows formats, as well as QuickMail Lan for Macintosh and MS-Mail for Macintosh, to Netscape SuiteSpot server software and Netscape Communicator.


• notesbegone by Chris Luton converts exported Notes messages to Eudora mailbox format


• oe2mbx converts Outlook Express to mbox format (Eudora and other e-mail programs use mbox)


• OutlookExpress to Eudora


• Outlook Express to Eudora by Mindware


• Pegasus Mail Addons has many converters (both directions)


• Pegasus Mail Converter by David Rahmel is an easy to use program that converts from Pegasus to Eudora. The Windows version does mailboxes, address lists, and signatures. The Mac OS version does mailboxes.


• QuickMail Migration by Gens Software Ltd, converts QuickMail to Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, or IMAP4 servers. "Both PC and MAC platforms are supported. The QuickMail Migration program works with both QuickMail LAN and QuickMail PRO versions."


• SmartMails converts both ways between Netscape and MS Internet Mail


• Thomas converts Pegasus mail-folders from the PMail-format to standard Unix-mbox format.


• Transend cc:Mail to Outlook/Exchange Migration & Coexistence Tools. ConnectorWare IMPORT Utility 4.2 for cc:Mail to Outlook/Exchange Conversion (also A special HP OpenMail version for organizations migrating from cc:Mail to Outlook but maintaining HP OpenMail as the mail server.)


• ViNo: Banyan Vines to Lotus Notes


• WPeg2Eud by Jean-Philippe Odent converts Pegasus Mail 2.x, 3.x to Eudora 3.x, 4.x

Messages/Mailboxes: (cross platform and other)

• Emailchemy by Weird Kid Software reads email from the proprietary formats of popular email applications and converts it to standard, portable formats that any application can use. Emailchemy 1.2 supports Eudora (Mac and Win), Netscape (Mac and Win), Mozilla, PowerTalk, Claris Emailer, Outlook Express for Windows and Macintosh, and QuickMail Pro. Versions are available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux/UNIX.
• Eudora Win to Mac and Mac to Win
• MailConverter (Mac) by R Shapiro, is available at HyperArchive. MailConverter is a utility which converts disparate mail and mail-like formats into sendmail format, suitable for use with Eudora or Z-Mail. It will also create and burst digests, and import Pine and MacEMail nickname files. Read the abstract for more information, including which formats of mail files and nicknames it converts.
• KMailCvt for KDE/KMail supports converting Eudora, Netscape, and Exchange Addressbooks to K format, and Outlook Express 4/5 folders to KMail.
• MsgConvert: A .MSG to mbox convertor. (Perl script). "MSG files are produced by some of Microsoft's e-mail programs."
• OE Mac to Win
• oe2mbx for Linux converts Outlook Express to mbox format (Eudora and other e-mail programs use mbox)
• Outlook to Unix mail converter at sourceforge
• OEConvert by Andrew Martens (for BeOS)
• OE/Entourage Exporter/Importer by Bill Wright "to move email messages and contact lists from Outlook Express 5 or Entourage between your Mac to Outlook Express 5.5 (or Outlook) on Windows." Can also import Win OE mailboxes to Mac.
• OtherMail to BE by David Bliss (converts Mac/PC formats to BeOS)
• Outlook2Mac by Little Machines converts email (including attachments), contacts, and calendar appointments from Windows Outlook to Mac Apple Mail, Address Book, iCal, Microsoft Entourage, MailSmith and PowerMail.

QuickMail Migration by Gens Software Ltd, converts QuickMail to Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, or IMAP4 servers. "Both PC and MAC platforms are supported. The QuickMail Migration program works with both QuickMail LAN and QuickMail PRO versions."

VMS to Eudora or Internet Explorer Messages/Mailboxes: (Mac to database formats or text/HTML)

• Email Magician by YAV Interactive Media. "Email Magician is a one-button solution to managing your email. The software automatically creates and helps you organize filters, mailboxes, and nicknames (address book entries) with one click. You can generate hundreds of filters in the time it takes to construct one manually. Email Magician creates mailboxes to go with your new filters, and can also add new nicknames to your address book corresponding to your new mailboxes. Can export mailboxes to FileMaker Proª databases (with a "strip html" option)."
• ETD (Mac) by HyperSolutions is an application that reads messages contained in Eudora mailboxes, Netscape Navigator mail folders, Claris Em@iler mail folders, and America Online messages, and puts them into a single tab-delimited field, return-delimited record file, ready to be imported into a spreadsheet or database.
• Email2FMP by MK Consulting is a set of FileMaker Pro databases which import and parse Eudora, Netscape, SweetMail, and mail.app mailboxes. This allows you to convert your mailboxes to FileMaker Pro files for archiving purposes or as a stepping stone to other uses. Once the emails are in FileMaker Pro, you can use FileMaker Pro's export engine to export your data in a variety of formats, including comma and tab delimited.
• Email2FMP SDK by MK Consulting. This new version no longer requires FileMaker Pro version 5, or even FileMaker Pro at all. Eudora2FMP SDK is available and is a free-standing application that can extract email from Eudora mailboxes and store it, or export it in a variety of formats. Included in the package now are templates to use to store email that are totally unlocked and ready for user modification. Two such templates are included - one for FileMaker Pro 3 or 4 and one for FileMaker Pro 5.
• EMBox2TSV (Mac; comes with ANSI C source code to compile on any machine) is a simple tool that converts Eudora (or Unix style) mailboxes to tab separated value files suitable for importing into tools like FileMaker Pro or Excel.
• fmMailscan an email scanning utility that enables data to be extracted from an email client's messages or addresses and to use that data to add, update or delete records in a FileMaker Pro database. Works with Eudora.
• FormConvert is another HTML form formatter.
• iData Pro from Casady & Greene for Mac OS, Mac OS X, or Windows. "iData Pro can even archive all your email into one easy-to-use database. Archiving email into iData Pro will keep your email client from becoming bloated. Simply import the email you wish to archive from your Outlook Expressª, Netscapeª or Eudoraª email client, select an freeform or field-based file, and voila! your email is now archived in an iData Pro database file so you can quickly sort through hundreds of emails in seconds."
• Import OSX Mail to Filemaker database by VivaLaData
• The InFORMer by HyperSolutions is an application that reads messages contained in Eudora mailboxes, Netscape Navigator mail folders, Claris Em@iler mail folders, and America Online messages, and it processes mailto: form data (sent from web forms) into either a text file or a tab-delimited field, return-delimited record format, ready for importing into your favorite spreadsheet or database.
• MailSpinner "is an AppleScript-based software kit containing scripts and templates that show how all mail in an Eudora or Emailer Mailbox can published on the web using PageSpinner."
• MailSteward by pubblog.com for Mac OS X. Will archive your mail.app mail into a relational database, import most mbox format (Eudora, Entourage and other) mail files, and will work with POP, IMAP, and .mac folders stored locally in mail.app.
• Outlook Express to Filemaker by VivaLaData
• Outlook Express to Text
• Turbo Mail Processor (Mac) by Jim Allison, in the HyperArchive, lets you do extensive searches on your Eudora mailboxes and convert to database format as well.
• MacEmail's Archive page has many solutions.

Messages/Mailboxes: (Win to database formats or text/HTML)

• Aid4Mail is a user-friendly Windows tool that helps you migrate your messages to a different mail client, export email for viewing through Internet Explorer, MS Excel, or a database, convert messages to extract or re-insert attachments, archive mail folders to save space or for compliance with legal requirements, and lots more. It supports more than 20 mail clients and mailbox formats, including MS Outlook, and processes all messages without losing any information, including those with file attachments and embedded contents like pictures and background images. You can also extract names and email addresses of people that have been corresponding with you. This feature is ideal if you need to rebuild an address book or create a mailing list.
• Convert is another HTML mailto: form converter.
• Email2FMP by MK Consulting is a set of FileMaker Pro databases which import and parse Eudora and Netscape mailboxes. This allows you to convert your mailboxes to FileMaker Pro files for archiving purposes or as a stepping stone to other uses. Once the emails are in FileMaker Pro, you can use FileMaker Pro's export engine to export your data in a variety of formats, including comma and tab delimited.
• ForMorph by fkeeps.com will import a variety of formats and put the messages into ForMorph's relational database.
• iData Pro from Casady & Greene for Mac OS, Mac OS X, or Windows. "iData Pro can even archive all your email into one easy-to-use database. Archiving email into iData Pro will keep your email client from becoming bloated. Simply import the email you wish to archive from your Outlook Expressª, Netscapeª or Eudoraª email client, select an freeform or field-based file, and voila! your email is now archived in an iData Pro database file so you can quickly sort through hundreds of emails in seconds."
• In Box Organizer will convert mailto: or cgi form results to database ready format.
• Mail-to-Text by T. Gitlin is a Win95/NT utility that can "bulk" extract messages from Eudora, Netscape, and unix format mailboxes and store the individually extracted messages as either pure text or HTML files. The utility creates one file for each message, sets the filename to the subject of the message, and can set the filedate as the sent date of the message. It can also copy transmitted and/or received attachments referenced in each message.
• Message Vault by ComAxis is a Windows 9x/2k utility for archiving and accessing email messages. With MV, you can relieve your primary email client of the burden of storing years worth of mostly unused messages, yet keep those messages easily accessible. By using data compression, and by optionally moving attachments to offline storage, you can store tens of thousands of messages with relatively little disk space. In addition, MV encrypts your messages using state of the art encryption techniques. Many popular email clients store messages "in the clear", leaving your correspondence open to anyone with access to your machine. MV makes these messages private, opened only by a password.
• Process Them from Kadmy is "an email processor that allows you automatically process all emails you have in your POP3 mailbox or in Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook email client so you don't have to do it manually any more" and can also "Process web forms you receive by email, extract common data and save it to a database (Excel, Access, MS SQL or MySQL) or to a text file."
• Slipstick has advice on converting internet mailboxes to Outlook/Exchange.
• Trans-form is an HTML mailto: form converter.
• WebTwin by NetWin converts HTML files or websites/intranets to Windows Help Files.

Messages/Mailboxes: (Unix/other to database formats or text/HTML)

• Hypermail converts unix mailbox formats to HTML, and is handy for archiving mailing lists to the web. See What is Hypermail for more information.
• MHonArc is an email to HTML conversion tool, handy for putting mailing list archives on the web. Has links to web scripts that will let you search the MHonArc produced archives.

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