"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| It's academic anyway - AFAIK, no Windows email client gives the option.

It is an option if you really want it. Undbx does it for
OE. I wrote a very simple script to do it for TBird. It's
simple because a TBird file is just each email pasted
together with a distinctive text string. Since email is by
definition nothing other than plain text, it's simple to
parse. I don't know about Turnpike, but it may be similar.
You could check the file in Notepad.

The drawback, though, is that there isn't a good
way to search them or visually scan them. You can
use an Explorer-style search tool, like Windows
search or Agent Ransack, but a dedicated email search
tool can search by date, from, to, subject, body, etc.

That's why I made the MSI utility. I wanted to be able
to access years worth of email, easily navigate in it,
and easily back up the whole thing. I do that for
OE by backing up the DBX files, but that only covers
current email and it requires OE to look at it, which
can be tricky.