Email Conversion Tools

Last Reviewed: April 9, 2007

Article: DTS0169

This article collects information on tools for converting message archives in proprietary email formats into standard or documented formats. This list is provided for informational purposes only. dtSearch Corp. cannot warrant or guarantee or provide support for these products. Please send suggestions for other products to add to the list (or feedback on any of the products listed) to tech@dtsearch.com.

To use message archives with dtSearch, the recommended formats are MSG, MBOX, Eudora or HTML. To ensure that MBOX archives are detected correctly, set up a file type definition in Options > Preferences > File Types to specify which files are to be indexed as MBOX archives.

dtSearch Desktop/Network includes a command-line program, mapitool, which can convert PST files to MSG. For mapitool documentation, see C:\Program Files\dtSearch\bin\mapitool.html.

For information on indexing Outlook message stores using dtSearch, see How to index Outlook and Exchange messages with dtSearch.

Tools

GWArchive
http://www.messagingarchitects.com/
Archiving of GroupWise mailboxes. See dtSearch Case Study, here: http://www.dtsearch.com/CS_GWArchive.html

Image Capture Engineering -- Z-Print
http://www.imagecap.com
Lotus Notes extraction. See dtSearch Case Study, here: http://www.dtsearch.com/CS_Z-Print.html

MessageSave
http://www.techhit.com/messagesave/
Exports Outlook messages to txt, msg, eml, or mbox files. Includes a COM interface for automatic exports.

WN MailKeeper
http://www.wickett.net/
Converts PST or Exchange Mailboxes to individual MSG files, which dtSearch can index directly.

ComAxis
http://www.comaxis.com/
Conversion tools for a variety of email formats

Notes2Outlook
http://www.softwareforlitsupport.com/
Converts Notes Email to Outlook PST and MSG files (Notes and Outlook must be installed).

SMT Archiver
Archives PST data in standard formats such as RTF, plain text, etc.

Transend
http://www.transend.com
Transcend Migrator for conversion of Exchange/Outlook, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, Netscape, IMAP, Eudora, Outlook Express, AOL, cc:Mail, Notwork, MHS, and others.

ol2mbox
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox
Open-source program that converts PST archives to MBOX format

ForMorph Message Converter ($20)
http://www.fkeeps.com/fmorph/fmindex.htm
Conversion tools for CompuServe and AOL archives.

Address Magic Personal
http://www.connectedsw.com/Overview/57262

Address book conversion

Information Sites

Information on message archive conversion tools
http://www.interguru.com/MailInformation.htm

Information on message archive and address book conversion.
http://www.emailman.com/conversion/index.html

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