Are you already on Twitter? Probably; we’re getting to this late, but we hope you start following “weirdkid” on Twitter. Often times, there isn’t much to say beyond “hey, check out this link” or “new version ready for download” and microblogging, like with Twitter, is the perfect venue for when
The Myth of the Received Date – Part 2
In Part 1, I explained how the “Date:” header of an email is actually the “sent date” and introduced a couple of issues with how the sent date is created by different email clients. Now in Part 2, I’ll give a similar rundown of the problems with the received date,
The Myth of the Received Date – Part 1
There is no such thing as a “received date”. Not in the standards, anyway. Is this a quibbling technicality? An omission? Nope. And I’ll tell you why. Why? Because the date of a message matters. It matters more than it probably should, with the advent of email forensics, being that
Mac OS X Mail’s .mbox folders are not standard mbox files
I think the title says it all, but the problem is bigger than that. The whole idea that the last 3 or 4 letters of a filename are an indication of underlying file format and structure is flawed. More than flawed, it’s wrong, but 3 decades of MS-DOS (yes, it’s
Emailchemy 9.8.2 released
Version 9.8.2 is a maintenance update that includes an improved Entourage converter and a few bug fixes. It’s a free update to all who have access to any 9.x release of Emailchemy. If you are converting Entourage or Outlook PST files, then you should install this update. The new Entourage
Using Emailchemy on corrupt PST files
Outlook PST files have a very complicated internal database structure, which is read from and written to probably thousands of times every day, and they tend to be quite large. The combination of these characteristics, combined with the fact that Outlook and Windows do crash every now an then, makes
Recovering email from a corrupt Entourage Database file
Someone recently wrote in asking how to recover email from a corrupt Entourage Database file and then how to get the email into a new version of Entourage. Specifically, the asker had a file that Entourage 2008 could not import or upgrade from an earlier version, and he had tried
Using Emailchemy’s Google Apps Uploader tool
Emailchemy’s Google Apps Uploader tool gives you the option of selecting a few different kinds of automatic labeling. If you select “Full Hierarchy”, then the entire folder hierarchy (path) will become a label. Gmail uses these labels for faking IMAP folders to an IMAP client. The other is to select
Emailchemy 9.8.1 released
Version 9.8.1 is a maintenance update with a few bug fixes and one new feature. It’s a free update to all who have access to any 9.x release of Emailchemy. If you are converting Outlook, Claris Emailer 1.x, or Entourage cache files, then you should install this update. The new
Emailchemy Memory Boost 1.0 Released
Today we released the Emailchemy Memory Boost app, and I’m hoping it helps people deal with some of the gigantic email archives they’ve been writing to me about. I originally designed Emailchemy to run in as little memory as possible, simply because at that time most computers had 32MB total