A new version of Emailchemy is available to download now. This update includes a new option for turning off strict RFC-2822 parsing of email header fields in the Forensic Edition, and a couple critical bug fixes for all users: a bug in the “Entourage Recovery” converter that caused it to
Twitter Down Again; Email’s Death Postponed
Twitter is a useful tool, and because of its success and the success of other social computing sites like Facebook and MySpace, some have claimed that email is dead. While I will agree that the advent of these new services has changed the use case for email, I believe email
Emailchemy 9.8.8 released
Emailchemy 9.8.8 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes: Improved Entourage Recovery converter recovers more deleted messages Entourage converter now extracts meeting accepted/rejected response messages Fixed Google Apps Uploader’s handling of messages with quoted-printable and base64-encoded text bodies
Emailchemy 9.8.7 released
Emailchemy 9.8.7 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes: Conversion logging now available in CLI Conversion log now using syslog format GUI Bug fixes for Google Apps Uploader and Entourage Archive wizard
Emailchemy 9.8.6 released
Emailchemy 9.8.6 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes: Performance improvements for Google Apps Uploader Configurable number of automatic retries in Google Apps Uploader command line interface Claris Emailer 2.0 converter now preserves international characters
Video walkthrough for importing email into Outlook
NOTE: an updated version of this video for Outlook 2013 is posted here: http://www.weirdkid.com/blog/2015/08/14/video-walkthrough-of-importing-email-into-outlook-2013/ The screencast starts with the act of converting Entourage email, but you could substitute the converting of any supported format. For example, you could use these instructions to move a standard mbox file into Outlook, too,
Articles on The Coming “Digital Dark Age”
Dealing with the prospect of a “digital dark age” is one of the reasons why we built Emailchemy, but I’ve found that many have trouble with this new term because they may not be familiar with the definition of the original. The term “Dark Ages” refers to a time period
Tip: Compact your mailboxes to avoid recovering deleted messages
Some people have written in confused about why Emailchemy converted so many more emails than their Inbox was showing. While perhaps alarming, it’s not cause for concern. To say it simply, Emailchemy extracts deleted messages from many email storage formats, and if you don’t want that to happen you should
Google Apps Uploader Walk-through
Here’s a walkthrough I recently sent to a customer who had questions about how the Google Apps Uploader works. I’m posting it here for future reference. 1) Using either the “Conversion Wizard” or “Advanced Conversion” tool in Emailchemy’s toolbox, convert your mail to Standard mbox Format, giving it a name
Emailchemy 9.8.4 released
Emailchemy 9.8.4 was released on January 7 with better handling of Eudora for Mac email and the ability to recover deleted messages from Entourage Database files. This update is recommended for all users converting Eudora for Mac email.