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How do I extract text from Outlook Express emails?

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CWebster

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Jun 12, 2002
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I want to extract the email address inside 1700 (ish) emails in Outlook Express. The email looks a little like this:

Name : George Smith
Email : george@gsmith.com

It's not simply a case of getting the persons address from the 'TO' or 'FROM' fields, it's actually inside the message body.

Is there a program that anyone knows of, or an easy way to write a program in VB to do this for me? I can only think of copying and pasting each message into a program that looks for everything after the "Email : " line and saves to a text file. This, however, would mean me having to manually cut and paste 1700 emails which is not a nice option! Perhaps there's some way to drag the emails into the program I talk about...?
 
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