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ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter
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ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter 4.29

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The Bottom Line

ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter lets you save emails easily, flexibly and to a great number of output formats including PDF, HTML, plain text and CHM. While a command line interface is available, ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter is a bit bulky for regular, scheduled archiving, though.
Pros
  • ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter supports a large number of output formats
  • Flexible sorting and filtering lets you create organized archives
  • ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter supports a good deal of PDF options
Cons
  • ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter is not ideal as a tool for scheduled archives
  • Doesn't support threading of messages in logical order for even more organized output

Description

  • ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter exports from Outlook Express dbx files and eml folders.
  • Supported output formats include PDF, DOC, HTML, RTF, CHM, HLP, Ami Pro and others.
  • You can search and sort messages flexibly before archiving them.
  • ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter supports a number of PDF options including security settings.
  • Certain attachments (word processing documents and spread sheets) can be incorporated into archives.
  • ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter 4.29

The ideal place for archiving emails should be the email client. Unfortunately, most email client's aren't built for this, and Outlook Express is no exception. But even if the shortcomings of OE are of no concern, you may want — or have — to export your emails to PDF, HTML, DOC or CHM files.

With ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter, creating such email archives is easy, and the selection of supported output formats is impressive (some require special converters to be installed, though). Sorting and searching help you organize the output, and in a few clicks the PDF file containing all the newsletters you sent in the last year is ready.

Unfortunately, ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter doesn't thread messages logically, which would be useful for mailing list archives, for example. As easy as exporting Outlook Express emails is manually, as an automatic archiving or backup solution, ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter lacks a bit in comfort and flexibility.

That's not to say that you can't use the command line interface to make ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter perform the desired task, though, and all in all ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter is a competent and comprehensive, albeit not perfect, email archiving solution for Outlook Express.

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