[Air-l] email extraction program

[jeremy hunsinger]

there are several outlook express .dbx file extraction utilities on 
freshmeat.net. you should be able to put together a small shell script 
that links that together with other utilities to strip html will get 
you what you need.
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 02:14 AM, tmr_s wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> same problem here, I'm drowning....
> do you konw of any program that can convert e-mail messages to text 
> files
> from outlook express...?
>
> Best,
> Tamar
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns at vt.edu>
> To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] email extraction program
>
>
>> just run html2txt on it or run it through bbedit strip html on the
>> command line to strip it out.
>> On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all:
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that turns email messages
>>> (I use Netscape 7) into text files?  I tried mail2txt but it included
>>> all the hidden html codes, which means I'll still have to strip each
>>> one individually. I'm trying to find the most painless way to get 4
>>> months of listserv messages into text files so I can import them into
>>> QSR N6 for analysis! I was led to believe that this latest version of
>>> NUD*IST had a utility to do this itself ("swift data import"). But 
>>> no!
>>> All documents must be text files, which was the case when I used it
>>> last a few versions back. Grrrr.
>>>
>>> Rhiannon
>>>
>>>
>>> Rhiannon Bury
>>> Assistant Professor
>>> Communication Studies
>>> Wilfrid Laurier University
>>> Waterloo, ON. Canada N2L 3C5
>>>
>>>
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>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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