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02-Jul-2008: Emailchemy 9.8 released



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Email Archival

If you need to preserve email messages and the information they contain as a historical business, public or personal record, you need to store email in a standard, durable format. Storing email in proprietary email application formats leaves you at risk of not being able to access the information in your email in the future.

FACT: Your email application will change every year, and eventually the format it stores your email in will change too. There is no guarantee that your email written by version 5.0 of any email application will be readable by version 9.0.

FACT: Your email application will someday be "end-of-life'd" and discontinued, because product strategies change and companies go out of business. There is no guarantee that another application will be able to open and read your email files when this happens.

FACT: Someday you will no longer have the specific combinations of computer hardware and software to access email data files stored in proprietary formats from email products that have long since faded from the technology landscape.

Emailchemy Conversion Technology, as found in the Emailchemy product, enables the long-term preservation and archival of the information in your email by converting the native email formats of email applications to standard, durable, plain-text formats based on the open standard Internet Message Format (RFC-2822).

Specifically, Emailchemy Conversion Technology can take all your proprietary email files and convert them to:

  • RFC-2882 message files, or
  • standard aggregate formats of RFC-2822 messages such as mbox, maildir, and maildir++, or
  • CSV files to enable the storage of email in database systems.

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