blog: email safety

[astewart]

can you write scripts in thunderbird to extract emails from a mail folder?

Thunderbird keeps folders in plain text files (mboxrd format) so you could parse them with anything. There is also an addon called ImportExportTools that you can use with Thunderbird's filter/search/select to export all matching emails in a variety of formats, plaintext, eml, html. You might not need a script.

[pj]

Nikos,

Thank you for providing the process to secure email. I use Outlook client at home linked to several POP3 email servers (YAHOO, GMAIL, etc.), and didn't realize how "newbie" I was being!

Gee, I've only been sending email in one form or another since the mid-80's. You'd think I would know better!

What software did you use to capture the server/client exchange? One of NirSoft's tools or something else?

Kilmatead,

Do you happen to know if Thunderbird or any of the other non-Outlook email clients provide a scripting API (ala VBA in the Office programs)? I'm probably unlikely to move away from Outlook, as that's the client I have to use at work, and I have some invested time in rules and VBA automation, but I'd like to know the options for the other family members I help that don't have personal copies of MS Office.

TIA
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PJ in (it's getting hotter!) FL

[nikos]

i think 99% of people doing emails are not aware of the problem, and that's because both outlook and all the instructions you find for setting up emails default to the 'insecure' ports

if you want to see the client/server conversation you'll need a program like
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28806/SMTP-Client