saving stored e-mails to CD disk

vidutis · 6 Feb 2004, 11:03 PM

I have over 200 e-mails stored in Fastmail and now want to transfer them to a CD to archive where I work. I can't figure out how to do that. Can somebody please help?

Thanks.

Rich Vidutis

Killer · 6 Feb 2004, 11:05 PM

Download them throught POP or IMAP into your local hard drive. From your computer you can do normal data writing to your CD-R medias.

deeaar · 7 Feb 2004, 06:40 PM

Otherwise archive them from options > folders and then write them onto a CD. That's what I did

cosffm · 7 Feb 2004, 07:51 PM

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Originally posted by deeaar
Otherwise archive them from options > folders and then write them onto a CD. That's what I did

Great feature! I was wondering about that, too. I just did it and noticed that the emails are .eml files. As I am not using a desktop client right now is it possible to convert these messages to .txt files for instance? Or can you read .eml files using a text editor? I haven`t tried that yet.

Or would you recommend just setting up the account in OE and importing the archived .eml messages - I hope there is an import feature! :-)

7 Feb 2004, 08:19 PM

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Originally posted by cosffm
Great feature! I was wondering about that, too. I just did it and noticed that the emails are .eml files. As I am not using a desktop client right now is it possible to convert these messages to .txt files for instance? Or can you read .eml files using a text editor? I haven`t tried that yet.

Or would you recommend just setting up the account in OE and importing the archived .eml messages - I hope there is an import feature! :-)

.eml files are plain-text files (mail messages including all headers) - you can read them with any plain-text editor.

There is an Import feature in OE (File, Import) - but you shouldn't need to use it if you set up the account.

cosffm · 7 Feb 2004, 08:43 PM

Thank you, Daniel. So, I have both options and could use either OE or just search the archives and read them with an editor.

Great!

6 Feb 2004, 11:03 PM	#1
vidutis Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 10	saving stored e-mails to CD disk I have over 200 e-mails stored in Fastmail and now want to transfer them to a CD to archive where I work. I can't figure out how to do that. Can somebody please help? Thanks. Rich Vidutis

6 Feb 2004, 11:05 PM	#2
Killer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Singapore Posts: 6,762 Representative of: Killer.kkk.sg	Download them throught POP or IMAP into your local hard drive. From your computer you can do normal data writing to your CD-R medias.

7 Feb 2004, 06:40 PM	#3
deeaar Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 57	Otherwise archive them from options > folders and then write them onto a CD. That's what I did

7 Feb 2004, 08:43 PM	#6
cosffm Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 65	Thank you, Daniel. So, I have both options and could use either OE or just search the archives and read them with an editor. Great!