Emailchemy 1.0
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http://www.weirdkid.com

Introduction

Emailchemy is a utility that helps you regain ownership of your e-mail by extracting it from the proprietary file formats used by many of yesterday’s forgotten and today’s most popular e-mail applications.  Emailchemy reads e-mail from the proprietary formats of the most popular e-mail applications and converts them to standard, portable formats that any application can use.
 
The primary idea behind Emailchemy was to convert all the various proprietary e-mail formats to The One True E-mail Format - RFC-822 (found at: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html).  This is the official Internet/ARPAnet standard for e-mail that has been around since 1973.  However, Emailchemy was built with a “pluggable” architecture that allows it to easily convert to other formats as well.
 
Things you can do with Emailchemy:
·         Convert email to standard formats
·         Repair or clean mailbox files
·         Remove proprietary extensions from mailbox files
·         Condense separate email files and archives
·         Prepare email for entry into a database
·         Make older email Year 2000 compliant

Supported E-mail Formats

Emailchemy currently can read the e-mail files and mailboxes from:
·         Eudora
·         Netscape
·         PowerTalk
·         Claris Emailer 1.x
·         Outlook Express 4
·         Outlook Express 5 & 6
·         any UNIX-style (RFC-822) mailbox
 
Emailchemy currently can rewrite any of the above formats into:
·         RFC-822 mailboxes (the only official Internet standard, also known as “mbox” or  “UNIX-style”)
·         Folders of individual RFC-822 email files (Plain text)
·         Comma-separated value files
·         Apple’s Mail.app format