Email extractor
NOTICE: Wandora's Email extractor has been enhanced and this documentation is slightly out of date. More documentation follows soon.
Email extractor can transfer standard email files and repositories to a topic map. Email extractor supports DBX and MBOX formats enabling you to extract Thunderbird's and Outlook Express' repositories for example.
To start with email extractor choose File > Extract > Other > Simple Email Extrator. You can choose to extract metadata from local or internet files. If you decide to process local files, Wandora asks you next where to start looking for the files. You can point the actual email files or a folder containing the files. If you decided to crawl internet files, Wandora asks you the URL where to start. Starting URL can be either an email file or an HTML page containing links to email files. Current email extractor does not support email protocols such as IMAP and POP.
Emails may contain very wide range of attachments and it is very likely that extractor faces unknown file formats while crawling larger email repository, and eventually generates exceptions. Wandora has been designed to tolerate exceptions and errors during email extractions. Note also that Wandora does not extract metadata from email attachments.
After the extraction you can find resulting topic island with finder and search word email. Below is an example of emails extracted with Email extractor. Email in topic panel is one of those spams we all are familiar with.
See also
- Wandora Firefox plugin can be used to extract topics directly from the Thunderbird email client.
