Weird Kid Software

Industrial-strength email migration, conversion and archival solutions

Forensics & eDiscovery

Speed up your investigation or case-building process by analyzing email content in the tool of your choice, rather than squinting at endless rows of seemingly unrelated bytes in a hex editor. Emailchemy solves the problem of forensic tool data preparation by converting email data into a standard format that any forensic tool can import for analysis.

Email Migration & Recovery

Emailchemy converts email from the closed, proprietary file formats of the most popular (and many of yesterday's forgotten) email applications to standard, portable formats that any application can use.

Email Archival

Preserving email for posterity can be difficult when email software stores your email in proprietary, unreadable files. Emailchemy can help you convert your email to a readable, durable format for archival or even prepare your email for entry into the database of your choice.

Emailchemy 13.3 Adds Support for macOS High Sierra

Emailchemy v13.3 is a major update to Emailchemy that adds support for converting the new mail archives created by macOS High Sierra’s Mail app. This version also adds support for professional licenses to be installed on USB dongles, to make it easier to use Emailchemy across several computers. We’ve also

Emailchemy 13.2.11 fixes Mac file dialogs; last version for Snow Leopard

This update fixes a problem with the file open & save dialogs on the Mac, where hidden files were not visible in the folder that is displayed when the dialog first is first displayed. This made it difficult to select files inside the Mac user’s Library folder. Also, this will

FAQ: Do you accept BitCoin?

It’s not often, but every now and then someone will ask if we accept BitCoin. The short answer is: yes, we do accept BitCoin. But… not automatically on the web site. If you wish to pay via BitCoin, send an email to specifying what you’d like to buy. We’ll reply

Emailchemy 13.2.10 restores IMAP compatibility with latest Outlook

Emailchemy’s IMAP server is often used for importing or migrating email into Outlook, but a recent update to Outlook 2016 for Windows introduced changes that broke compatibility with it. Basically, when setting up the Emailchemy IMAP account in Outlook, the server settings test would fail because Emailchemy didn’t provide an

Emailchemy 13.2.9 fixes AOL converter crash

With the help of one of our customers, we found a bug in the AOL for Windows converter where the converter would crash on certain kinds of badly-formed HTML content. Emailchemy has to fix image tags in the original AOL content so that the images will display correctly outside of

Emailchemy 13.2.7 fixes Outlook Mac blank messages

If you’ve tried importing email from Emailchemy’s IMAP server into Outlook 2016 for Mac lately, you may have noticed that most messages were blank. The blank messages were caused by a recent software update from Microsoft that changed how Outlook Mac reads messages from an IMAP server. Today, we’ve released

Try this if Emailchemy is running very slow

After updating the Java Virtual Machine that Emailchemy uses, I noticed that Emailchemy was running very, very slow. Emailchemy should be processing many messages each second (messages with 30 full-size pictures attached will take longer, of course). After digging into the problem, I found that the hostname of my MacBook

Easier IMAP Imports into Apple Mail

Apple Mail has made setting up Gmail and Yahoo! mail accounts easier, but in doing so it made setting up plain old IMAP accounts more difficult. To help, we’ve created a macOS configuration profile that should make setup a little easier. A configuration profile is kind of like a script that makes the necessary

Emailchemy 13.2.1 Released

Emailchemy’s built-in IMAP server is now compatible with the Apple Mail app that comes with macOS Sierra (10.12). Setting up the IMAP account in the new Apple Mail requires an extra step. In the Advanced IMAP Settings (found in the Server Settings tab of the Account settings in Apple Mail),

Emailchemy 13.2 Released

Emailchemy 13.2 adds the ability to convert emails from Apple Mail “V4” folders found in macOS Sierra. It also includes a change to the embedded IMAP server used for importing email into Outlook and many other IMAP-compatible email applications. The IMAP server previously would mark folders on the server as

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