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Reply to ALL messages in an OE folder - or export the sender's     addresses in that folder

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x-sail@x-sail.com - 29 Nov 2007 17:23 GMT
Hi
I would like to send a message ( reply) to all the senders of messages
in a
folder in Outlook Express. How can I do so - as when you have more
than one
message selected and you right click, the Reply is greyed out and not
available. Actually what i really want to do is export the addresses
in this
one folder to a Multimailing piece of software I have.

There are several hundred, so creating an address book contact list
one by
one seems very laborious.Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
Tom
Michael Santovec - 29 Nov 2007 23:00 GMT
There isn't an easy way to do that.

You can use Drag-and-Drop to save multiple e-mail messages at a time.

- Open the Windows File Explorer to the folder (directory) that you
want to save the messages to (e.g. C:\EML-TEMP).  For minimal confusion,
the folder should be empty or only used for saving mail messages.
- In Outlook Express highlight the desired messages (Ctrl-Click or
Shift-Click)
- While holding down the Left mouse button, drag the messages to the
Explorer window.  If the Explorer window is not visible, drag to the
Taskbar button for Explorer, keep holding the left mouse button down
until Explorer moves to the front, then complete the drag to the
Explorer window and then release the Left mouse button.
- Complication: Messages are saved as *.EML files where the first part
of the file name is the message's subject.   If you save multiple
messages in one drag-and drop operation, OE will automatically number
the subsequent messages with identical subject to make the name unique.
But if you later save additional messages with the same subject it will
start the numbering process over again and you will get a "Confirm File
Replace" dialog for the duplicate names.  When this happens, leave the
confirm dialog and switch to the Windows File Explorer.  Rename the
first file (e.g. rename "The Subject.EML" to "The Subject-1.EML").  Then
switch back to the Confirm dialog and click on YES.  The new message
will get saved with the original name and the previous message will
still be there with the new name.
- You can then use the EML2TXT.BAT file (see below) to combine the
*.EML messages into a single Text file.  You will probably want to make
some changes, such as the EML directory.  See the comments (REM
statements) in the file.
EML2TXT.BAT and OUTDUMP.EXE -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/files/outdump.zip

Then enter the following all on one line.  I broke it up so that it
would fit in this message.  This extracts  the addresses from the
eml2txt.txt file and places in an address.txt file.

find /i "from: " eml2txt.txt | find /v /i ">from: " |
find /v /i " from: " | sort > address.txt

You can then tweak the address.txt file to import to your mailing
program.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

> Hi
> I would like to send a message ( reply) to all the senders of messages
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> Thanks
> Tom
 
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