Address Extractor v1.5 ---------------------- This program is designed to extract addresses from saved mail in Eudora Light and Eudora Pro versions 1.44 through 4.0 The program should work with mail from any program that is saved in text files in its original RFC822 format. Mail stored in various database formats will not work. INSTALLATION ------------ To install the program, save the three program files in the same directory as your IN.MBX file. This is probably your Eudora directory. You will need QBASIC.EXE to run this program. qBasic is a DOS utility that is not installed by default in new win95 installations. To check that you have qBasic installed, open a DOS window, type QBASIC, and press [Enter]. If qBasic starts, everything's fine. Press [Alt]-[F]-[X] to exit qBasic. If qBasic does not start then you will need to search your Win95 installation disk(s) for QBASIC.EXE and QBASIC.HLP and copy them to your WINDOWS\COMMAND directory. RUNNING THE PROGRAM ------------------- To run the program just double-click on GETADDR.BAT from within File Manager or Windows Explorer. In Win95 the bat file will appear with a small Window icon. The BAT file will generate a list of mailboxes then start the BAS file, which is the actual program. The program will ask your for your email address. This is so mail you sent and saved will be ignored. Next you will be asked for the format you want the program to use for the extracted addresses: * Tab-Delimited: Full Name and Email Address are separated by a tab. * Addresses Only: Email Address by itself on a line. * Eudora Address Book Format: Full Name and Email Address in the format used by Eudora for Address Books. READING SPECIFIC MAILBOXES -------------------------- The program defaults to reading all folders and mailboxes (MBX files) to extract addresses. You can customize this by disabling the line in the BAT file that generates mbxlist.txt. To extract addresses only from specific mailboxes, just edit the BAT file to change dir /s /b *.mbx > mbxlist.txt to REM dir /s /b *.mbx > mbxlist.txt Then create a text file named MBXLIST.TXT that contains a list of the mailboxes that you want the utility to read. This list must have DOS- style "8.3" file names. Win95-style long file names will not work. If you aren't sure what the DOS-style file names are for your mailboxes, just type "DIR *.MBX" at the DOS prompt. LEGAL NOTICES ------------- Copyright © 1997,1998 Anthony E. Greene This software is FREEWARE and may be used for any purpose; personal, educational, governmental, or commercial, but may not be sold or included in the distribution of any commercial product. No warranty is provided. You use this software at your own risk.