[thelist] converting emails to database

[Mike]

At 14:35 17.01.2004 +1200, you wrote:
>Perhaps this is what is being done now but there are 700 historic
>reservations that have to be imported into the new DB?
>
>If so, then the only way may be to find a Developer to write a script for
>you that will parse the email bodies, whether by accessing them from Outlook
>or post processing them after they have been exported into the DB?

If you install Eudora (free version available) and import Outlook's mail
folders, you get plain-text files... Each folder is in an mbx file which
is readable with a simple text editor.

 From there you can search-and-replace to delete the unneeded parts, apply
regex functions etc.

Does that help?

Mike


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