[HN Gopher] Show HN: Export Mail for Microsoft Outlook for Mac
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       Show HN: Export Mail for Microsoft Outlook for Mac
        
       Author : lancer
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-04-09 15:18 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (exportoutlookmacmail.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (exportoutlookmacmail.com)
        
       | lancer wrote:
       | 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-...
        
       | throwaway088 wrote:
       | Why not use imap ?
        
         | lancer wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | Curious if corporate Exchange admins can thwart this with domain
       | policy, etc.
        
         | lancer wrote:
         | 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.
        
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