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.
On Twitter
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