viewing archived messages

[Gersen]

Regarding the archived messages sitting in the Archive, In, or Out, and Turfdir directories, the ones with the random alphanumeric gibberish as names: I know I can view them with Notepad to see the headers and such, but how can I view the message through Outlook? I guess my question is how can I deliver these archived messages to a chosen mailbox?

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[zbnet]

You can't. They're text files. You could write some sort of script to parse them, but essentially they're not viewable as individual messages, at least not with the 'out of the box' software. There may be some 3rd party utilities that read them (I don't know, I've never looked), but if they exist they'll probably be quite expensive.

 

[Gersen]

well, obviously they ARE in a format that can be delivered read by an e-mail client, since that is what happens to them if they are in the In or Out queues.

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[zbnet]

Gersen, you asked whether they could be read specifically by Outlook. My answer was correct. But of course, they are readable by other software, just about any ‘open a file’ program could open them, just not usefully. Look, these are working directories for the IMS, and the IMS is a gateway, and gateway software is really rather clever, it looks like an SMTP server to the SMTP side of it and an exchange-aware IS user to the Exchange side. The IMS does content conversion between the SMTP format and the internal, proprietary Exchange format, and it delivers email in the latter format to the information store (which has its own internal structure). So the absolutely correct answer to your question is that the working files written by the IMS can be read by the IMS. Just because there are significant portions of the file rendered in plain text doesn't necessarily mean that notepad or Outlook or any other software is suitable for reading them. I can open a Word document and read the plain text from it, but it sure isn't very useful.

 

[Gersen]

thanks for th additional info

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