This update to Emailchemy adds the Entourage Recovery functionality to Entourage X (version 10) databases and fixed a couple small converter bugs in the AOL converter and the Mac OS X Mail output format. This update is available for download now.
A new version of Emailchemy is available to download now. This update includes a new option for turning off strict RFC-2822 parsing of email header fields in the Forensic Edition, and a couple critical bug fixes for all users:
Twitter is a useful tool, and because of its success and the success of other social computing sites like Facebook and MySpace, some have claimed that email is dead. While I will agree that the advent of these new services has changed the use case for email, I believe email still has many, many years before we send it out to pasture.
Case in point: tonight, Twitter is down. Down for everyone, as reported by the ever useful downforeveryoneorjustme.com web site. The funny part about the screenshot here (and why I took the screenshot) is that right after the site reports that Twitter is down, it asks you to follow it on Twitter! Irony aside, this also illustrates how ubiquitous Twitter has become as tool to reach people on the Internet. Most web sites these days have a Twitter badge on the contact page right next to (or even in place of) the “email us” button.
It’s hard to imagine that Twitter will be down for days or even hours, but the point is that it is down. For everyone. Does email ever go down for everyone?
Email may “go down” for you, and maybe even for your entire domain, but for email to be down for everyone it would literally mean that the Internet is down for everyone!
Why? Because nobody owns email. Anyone can set up an email server — and millions have. Email is distributed.
Emailchemy 9.8.8 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes:
Emailchemy 9.8.7 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes:
Emailchemy 9.8.6 is now available on the website. This maintenance release includes:
Dealing with the prospect of a “digital dark age” is one of the reasons why we built Emailchemy, but I’ve found that many have trouble with this new term because they may not be familiar with the definition of the original. The term “Dark Ages” refers to a time period between the fall of Rome and the Age of Enlightenment, and historians often referred to it as “dark” because there is little in the way of contemporary written history or literature.
The concept of the “Digital Dark Age” is similar, in that through the use of proprietary file formats we may be setting the stage for a future Dark Age because we will no longer have the legacy technology required to read those proprietary file formats.
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Emailchemy 9.8.4 was released on January 7 with better handling of Eudora for Mac email and the ability to recover deleted messages from Entourage Database files. This update is recommended for all users converting Eudora for Mac email.
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Are you already on Twitter? Probably; we’re getting to this late, but we hope you start following “weirdkid” on Twitter.
Often times, there isn’t much to say beyond “hey, check out this link” or “new version ready for download” and microblogging, like with Twitter, is the perfect venue for when writing a full “real” blog post isn’t really needed or convenient at the moment. For example, Twitter “tweets” (as they are called) were designed to be sent from a mobile phone as a SMS text message, so they are naturally limited to be no more that 140 characters long. And, we can post them while sitting in a meeting, or walking to the next one, riding the bus, while writing code, or even waiting on line at Starbucks.
Version 9.8.2 is a maintenance update that includes an improved Entourage converter and a few bug fixes. It’s a free update to all who have access to any 9.x release of Emailchemy. If you are converting Entourage or Outlook PST files, then you should install this update.
The new Entourage converter has increased throughput (i.e. “it’s faster”) because it now keeps the entire database index in memory. This reduces the amount of jumping around the file, and it doesn’t increase the memory requirements significantly because all Entourage database files have known maximum number of items they can hold.
Also, and perhaps more importantly, the new Entourage converter extracts more data. It preserves all message flags (e.g. read/unread, priority, replied-to, forwarded, flagged) and sent attachments now too. Previous versions only preserved received attachments.
The Outlook PST converter was also modified to be a bit more resilient to corrupted PST files. Still, it’s always a good idea to make sure your PST file still works in Outlook before trying to run it through Emailchemy. See our previous post on working with corrupt PST files for more details.
