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.
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
Why I Made Emailchemy
I am an email packrat. I first started using email at college back in 1990. Back then, all I used for reading email was the UNIX "mail" program. As I became more sophisticated I began to use Elm. For one reason or another, I was saving all my email, and