MS Office 2000 Outlook 3rd party reader 2

[raythenovice]

We Have MS Office 2000 Pro and we are going to archive our project emails as (message format to save the attachments)so others can read them. We are an Architectural firm and save a lot of correspondance. If others don't have Outlook is there a way to read the email or do you need a 3rd party sorftware and if there is where can we buy it.


Thanks from Ray

 

[kjv1611]

Can you expand a little on this one?

I mean, if you're willing to go out and buy the other software, why not just get all updated copies of Outlook? If the computers are new enough, then go ahead and get Outlook 2007, so you're up to date.

But what I mean on expanding is this: "If others don't have Outlook is there a way to read the email..?"

So, are they accessing the same machine to read the email, or are you forwarding the email to them, or what?

If it's on an exchange server, I think that some other programs can access the email, but I'm not sure. If you're just forwarding the email messages, then it shouldn't really matter what program they use....

Or if you are as you say, saving each message as a "message format" file, then perhaps you're going about it the wrong way. Maybe you could just save them as a text file or word file, or open document format file or just not save it as a separate file altogether???

Just some thoughts...

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[raythenovice]

Hi kjv1611;

Basically our boss wants is to keep the emails intaket with the file attachments to sent show that if there any problems with the project that we have the attachements and the email to send them. We were saving as a text with no attachment, but he wants to change it. As far as I know of none of our consultants has any but Outlook. But he what's to make sure. Wow some of our file attachments are more than 2 megs. Need alot of server space for that. Have a nice one.

Ray

 

[JockMullin]

http://www.encryptomatic.com

has a product called msgviewer. It comes in lite and pro versions (USD50 and USD60 respectively) which does what you are looking for. Bulk and site licenses are available.

The pro will open both .msg and .eml files, and includes full support for RTF and HTML. The lite version will just extract the text in black & white. Both give access to attachments and message headers and support batch processing and searches.

I have not used it myself, so not recommending it but just passing along the reference. A trial version is available.

Jock

 

[raythenovice]

Hi JockMullin;


Thanks for the information. I'll let my boss know.