Re: Can You Import Text Files as Emails

Hi Brian,

I guess you used recover mode of DBXtract or DBXpress.

The reason the files are text files is explained in the help file. Basically MS overwrites 4 bytes for every 512 bytes in a message, when it deletes a message or marks it for deletion. The programs above are able to recover the 508 bytes correctly per message piece, but the 4 overwritten bytes are irrecoverable, so the messages cannot be fully recovered.

Go to the command prompt and navigate to the directory where the extracted txt files are located and type:

rename *.txt *.eml

Once that is done, you can drag the eml files back into OE as messages.

But they will be incomplete, as indicated above.

cheers,

steve

"Brian Alley" <NomoreSPAM> wrote in message news:eRYLnKcRFHA.3104@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I was just curious if there's a way to import a text file as an email into OE.

I've got numerous recovered emails but the problem is that they've been recovered as .txt files. Is there any way to port them back into OE?

Thanks in advance!


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