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I would lke to have a backup of all my email in a pure text form. Many
years ago I used Netscape email, and the entire mail file was pur text;
attachments followed the message and were encoded in base64. I could
always retrieve my email (with a little effort) by cuting and pasting,
and using uuencode to retrieve the binary form of the attachment. Is
there any way to do this in Outlook?

I have recently encountered difficulties with different versions of
Outook at home and work, so would like to avoid problems like this in
the future by having a purely text email file.

TIA



Install Thunderbird and import your Outlook mail to that - that will do
exactly the same job.

HTH