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. -- 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
