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Converting an Outlook folder into text files

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Apr 05, 20042 mins
Enterprise ApplicationsMessaging AppsMicrosoft Exchange

Is there a utility that can convert an entire Outlook mailbox folder full of Web server log-file reports on our Exchange server into individual text files on my hard drive all at once?

Is there a utility that can convert an Outlook mailbox folder full of Web server log-file reports on our Exchange server into individual text files on my hard drive all at once?

Check out the free Personal Message Store Export Utility.

Choose the folders and subfolders you want to extract messages from using selection lists provided in the program dialog and identify the directory to which you want to move the extracted messages. Click the Export button to create individual text files from the e-mail messages and Outlook mail folders you select.

The program names files by subject line and consecutively numbers messages with duplicate subject lines. It does not export attachments by default, but you can change the settings and have attachments exported to the directory where message files are written.

Alternative methods for exporting Outlook messages and attachments are listed here. There is a shareware utility called Outlook Attachment Sniffer that installs in your Outlook toolbar to provide buttons for exporting all attachments in a folder hierarchy at once.