Here are the steps I use to export messages from a mail folder:
1. Run The Bat!.
2. Click on a message in the mail folder.
3. Press Ctrl+* (asterisks) to expand all message threads.
4. Press Ctrl+A to highlight all messages.
5. Click Tools | Export Messages | UNIX Mailbox
6. In the Save Messages window enter a file name to save the messages.
7. Repeat steps 2 through 6 until all messages in all mail folders
have been exported.
When I complete the above steps, I copy these files containing all
messages over to my Mac OS X computer for Mozilla. When Mozilla reads
these UNIX mailbox files, there are many duplicate messages. I then view
these UNIX mailbox files through a text editor I use all the time called
Multi-Edit 8.0j, or through Windows Notepad, and there are duplicate
messages in the UNIX mailbox files. However, when I import the messages
into The Bat! to a new mail folder, the duplicate messages do not
appear.
I installed The Bat! to C:\TheBat. When I copy one of the mailbox
MESSAGE.TBB files from one of the directories:
C:\TheBat\MAIL\AccountName\Mailbox-folder\MESSAGES.TBB
to a test directory (i.e. c:\test), I rename MESSAGES.TBB to
MESSAGES.UUE. I then run Winzip and open the MESSAGES.UUE file. I see
many ###.TXT (### refers to the message numbers: 1, 2, 3, etc.) files
and I extracted these files to the c:\test\msgs directory. I reviewed
majority, if not all, of these files and there were no duplicate
messages. However, I did notice that each 1.TXT file every one of the
MESSAGES.TBB files that I changed to MESSAGES.UUE showed corruption. I
am not sure if there is any correlation to this or not, but I thought I
would mention it. At least there is an absolute and tedious method to
recover messages in The Bat! if ever needed by renaming the *.TBB files
to *.UUE and use Winzip to get the individual messages back.
Questions:
Why does The Bat! duplicate messages when exporting messages?
How can I solve this duplicate message export problem? I need to get
these messages over to the Mac OS X computer without having many
duplicate e-mails in the exported UNIX mailbox files.
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Using The Bat! v1.62i on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600
Service Pack 1
Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information:
http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
