Automating Saving Emails as Text

Hello,

I have a huge folder of mail that I would like to archive as text files,
then import into a database I have that can parse out the emails, subject,
and body the way I need it.

The problem is, I currently have to go to each message, one by one, and save
them as text.

Does anybody know of an easy way to automate these steps? I've looked in
AppleScript and Automator and can't seem to find anything. I have a strong
programming background and it seems like it would be easy to set up a
looping script or something. It doesn't even matter what I name them: "1",
"2", "3", etc, would work.

Thanks in advance!

Ed

Steve
Mon May 08 12:27:43 CDT 2006

Check out EEAX. http://www.softhing.com/eeax/info.html
Save as multiple formats including saving in a FileMaker file. As a
FileMaker developer, I really like that option.

Steve

On 5/8/06 11:14 AM, "Edward McPike, Jr" <emcpike@mcpikeconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a huge folder of mail that I would like to archive as text files,
> then import into a database I have that can parse out the emails, subject,
> and body the way I need it.
>
> The problem is, I currently have to go to each message, one by one, and save
> them as text.
>
> Does anybody know of an easy way to automate these steps? I've looked in
> AppleScript and Automator and can't seem to find anything. I have a strong
> programming background and it seems like it would be easy to set up a
> looping script or something. It doesn't even matter what I name them: "1",
> "2", "3", etc, would work.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Ed
>


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Diane
Mon May 08 19:50:50 CDT 2006

On 5/8/06 8:14 AM, in article C084D8A5.13F5C%emcpike@mcpikeconsulting.com,
"Edward McPike, Jr" <emcpike@mcpikeconsulting.com> wrote:

> I have a huge folder of mail that I would like to archive as text files,
> then import into a database I have that can parse out the emails, subject,
> and body the way I need it.

eMessage Archiver - by John Carlsen has been around a long time. Backs up
to FileMakerPro.

http://homepage.mac.com/thinkagain/Mac/eMA/

Another script that might be of interest is "Entourage Many to Word" By:
Allen Watson

This script will take one or more selected messages (or a single message if
open) and will write them all to a single Microsoft Word document.

<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/entouragemanytoword1.4.html>

Yet another script to save messages as text files Quick Save as Text 1.0

Author: Allen Watson
<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/quicksaveastext1.0.html>

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Diane Ross
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>