This looks nice! I've also had great luck with Email Alchemy to export over 1 million messages from over a decade of mail.
Emailchemy looks like a pretty useful tool. I'll take a look!
Readit Newslancer commented on Show HN: Export Mail for Microsoft Outlook for Mac exportoutlookmacmail.com/... · Posted by u/lancer
lancer commented on Show HN: Export Mail for Microsoft Outlook for Mac exportoutlookmacmail.com/... · Posted by u/lancer
Curious if corporate Exchange admins can thwart this with domain policy, etc.
One might think so, but a quick search didn't turn up any results. Outlook for Mac has had AppleScript automation for at least a decade, so you'd think there would be some mention of it if there was.
lancer commented on Show HN: Export Mail for Microsoft Outlook for Mac exportoutlookmacmail.com/... · Posted by u/lancer
Why not use imap ?
I imagine IMAP would provide access to most cloud-based email services, and I bet there are some IMAP-based export tools. However, in my experience, Microsoft Exchange email accounts are only accessible through the Exchange Server protocol, whatever that might be. Outlook is the perfect intermediary.
lancer commented on Show HN: Export Mail for Microsoft Outlook for Mac exportoutlookmacmail.com/... · Posted by u/lancer
I put this macOS app together to help me archive 250,000+ emails from Microsoft Outlook to local storage. (In a format that would outlast an OLM file.) It started as a simple AppleScript script and multiplied by asking myself, "I wonder if I could make it do X..." a hundred times over. The project was ready to share four years ago but a spontaneous cross-country move left it to languish. A recent HN "share your half-baked project" post motivated me to open Xcode and polish it up for 2021. As a former SaaS CTO and Win32 developer in a former life, it has been quite a journey down the rabbit hole of macOS app development. Unfortunately, the "New Outlook" doesn't support AppleScript to the extent the "Classic" version does [1], so its shelf-life is unknown. It's free to run in either a limited Trial mode or you can request a beta license key to remove the export message count limit. No doubt this targets a niche market, and it would be great if there is enough interest to support continued development.
[1] https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/924856-the-new-outlook-...
lancer commented on Show HN: Export Mail for Microsoft Outlook for Mac exportoutlookmacmail.com/... · Posted by u/lancer
I put this macOS app together to help me archive a decade of mail from Microsoft Outlook to local storage. (In a format that would outlast an OLM file.) It started as a simple AppleScript script and multiplied by asking myself, "I wonder if I could make it do X..." a hundred times over. The project was ready to share four years ago but a spontaneous cross-country move left it to languish. A recent HN "share your half-baked project" post motivated me to open Xcode and polish it up for 2021. As a former SaaS CTO and Win32 developer in a former life, it was quite a journey down the rabbit hole of macOS app development. Unfortunately, the "New Outlook" doesn't support AppleScript to the extent the "Classic" version does [1], so its shelf-life is unknown. Business/pricing model is TBD. It's free to run in either a limited Trial mode or you can request a beta license key to remove the export message count limit.
[1] https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/924856-the-new-outlook-...
https://exportoutlookmacmail.com/
I started this Mac App project in early 2017 that uses AppleScript to export/archive mail messages from Microsoft Outlook for Mac. I was looking for beta users right as my family abruptly moved to a new city. I haven't made time to touch it since. It essentially went from close-to-baked to mothballed. I'll share it here with the caveat that it does not actually work at the moment due to an AppleScript-related error. If there's enough interest in the idea, I'll find time to look into that!
lancer commented on Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash csun.io/2020/05/17/gnucas... · Posted by u/igpay
I want to like GnuCash but I just can't. I have found the UI to be confusing. I still use a freeware, abandoned version of Microsoft Money: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207...
The UI is still excellent. It is the only reason I have Windows installed on a spare computer. Despite never being updated, the principals of personal finance haven't changed that much.
I'm in the same boat! One Windows laptop in the house dedicated to MS Money. With 27 years of financial history, and counting, it still does everything I need it to. Once a year I export it into Excel to do some forecasting and analysis. I'd really love if there were a reliable and future-proof way to get at the data. Sunriise[0] is the only way I know to export raw data but it has a few issues and the source code isn't public.
[0] https://bitbucket.org/hleofxquotesteam/dist-sunriise/wiki/Ho...
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