Nobody who thinks about it feels really good about Outlook anymore. There have been far too many viruses recently. And when Outlook mail become corrupt, there is no simple and reasonable way to save data (only Microsoft knows the storage format).
However, prying old mail out of Outlook isn’t easy. Eudora has an import function, but it rarely works with Outlook. The mail account ususally works, the . MS might have broken things on purpose, or their interface could just be too unreliable - this happened to others before.
And if you don’t have your old Office-CD around you can’t even install Outlook’s export functionality. But who needs it? I am halfway through a Python-script that dumps all messages to a text-file. This is easy - getting from text to new messages in Eudora will be slightly trickier. We’ll see…
Update:
I now have a proof of concept. My script succesfully exports 1800+ messages from an old Outlook Aila has. And the output is native Eudora mbx files - no import is needed, just put them in the right folder. I’ll fix several details, make it more robust and post it somewhere. In a little while…
