Batch conversion Outlook Express messages to PDF

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FUBARinSFO

Hi:

What is current thinking about batch conversion of Outlook Express
messages to PDF files?

I'm crawling through the links on the page noted here:

http://www.slipstick.com/config/convmsg.htm
Converting Messages and Calendars

Here are some thoughts on problems:

1. Export to / Impoft from Outlook Express --> Outlook loses subfolder
structure. All you've got are emails by dates (unless you import by
individual subfolders)

2. DBXtract loses tree structure as well (though does save messages in
dbx folders) and doesn't handle attachments.

3. Nothing I've seen retains the timestamp of the original message, so
the resulting .eml (or .pdf) files can't be sorted by relevant date,
only by name

4. Adobe PDFMaker will handle attachments to Outlook emails, but only
for supported applications (which are pretty limited but does include
Microsoft Office).


I've got Adobe Acrobat 8 professional, if that helps.

Thank you in advance for your help.

-- Roy Zider
 
You might take a look at OEX (www.oehelp.com/OEX/) It will save the
messages and the attachments separately and the messages can be saved with
the date appended or prepended to the subject for sorting.

It won't do everything you want though.

steve
 
Steve:

Thanks for the pointer to OEX. The interface is impressive. I guess
what I don't understand is why these programs don't simply create the
exported .eml files with file dates of the original email message,
rather than the timestamp of when the file was exported. That would
obviate the requirement to append/prepend the email date to the file
name, as you've noted OEX can do. Even Outlook Express, when you drag
and drop selected emails to a Windows Explorer folder, creates
the .eml with the date of the message rather than the timestamp of
the .eml file export creation.

-- Roy Zider
 
Because that is lying about the file date. The file date is the date the
file was created. The message date is the date the message was created.
They are different entities and I didn't want to fake the former to match
the latter.

steve
 
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