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by ankank

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How is it that not a single email extractor program that I have found on this web site and elsewhere (10 in all) will not work? When the files have been downloaded, extracted and then run there is always an error message along the lines of runtime error or missing file.

Is there something going on I should be told about?

ank

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by bizzo

If you tell us what you've downloaded from where, and the sepcific error messages you're getting, then someone might be able to help.

by ankank

Take the Shark email extractor available from this site. I'm using it to get email addresses from my old Outlook Express folders on my old Sony Vaio Pentium II running good ol' Windows 98 (remember that?).

Typical error message which I cannot now specify since I uninstalled everything that didn't work runs along the lines of runtime error 'line', or missing xxxxx.msi file please specify folder. When I specify the temp folder into which the setup has unzipped, nothing changes.

Why I posed the blanket question was because I suddenly re-called - or appear to have recalled - some little note in a long ago trawl around web news to the effect that email extractor programs were considered spyware. It made me wonder whether all such programs have been deliberately disabled by conscientious software distributors. Course, I could have dreamed that.

ank

by bizzo

... Windows 98. System requirements for the application are Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server.

I installed it fine on 2003 Server, will try on NT.

by the scummy one

are from Win2k forward. Previously they were just setup.exe or install.bat files.

The extractors will not work, because files aer missing, Win98 cannot determine what the .msi file association is to.

If you are just looking for contacts, etc., try using the import/export option (if your mail program allows it), and export everything to a cd/dvd/LAN share.

by computercookie

What are you trying to extract, and what do you hope to open the file with.

Please don't think badly of Bizzo's lisp!!

Specific is a hard word to pronounce, even harder to type twice in a paragraph!!!

by bizzo

Didn't notice that, won't change it because it'd just make your post confusing!

Fat fingers are the bane of my life!

by ankank

Take the Shark email extractor available from this site. I'm using it to get email addresses from my old Outlook Express folders on my old Sony Vaio Pentium II running good ol' Windows 98 (remember that?).

Typical error message which I cannot now specify since I uninstalled everything that didn't work runs along the lines of runtime error 'line', or missing xxxxx.msi file please specify folder. When I specify the temp folder into which the setup has unzipped, nothing changes.

Why I posed the blanket question was because I suddenly re-called - or appear to have recalled - some little note in a long ago trawl around web news to the effect that email extractor programs were considered spyware. It made me wonder whether all such programs have been deliberately disabled by conscientious software distributors. Course, I could have dreamed that.

ank

by bizzo

Tried an install on NT4 (haven't got 98 I'm afraid), and the installed failed on trying to find WININET.dll and SHLWAPI.dll, and then running failed with a runtime error '0'.

This was a fresh install, so it had IE2 on it. The two dlls that were missing are IE specific I think. So I installed IE6 on the machine and Shark installs and runs fine on NT4.

I'd suggest installing IE6 on your machine, and trying the install again.

by ankank

Thanks for your replies. Talking to someone else about this extraction problem has led me to conclude that I'm wasting my time anyway. What I want to get at are email addresses embedded in the form contents emailed to me from my web site (using FormMail). All these simple (free) extractors do is look for email header information and log that. They can't get at email addresses inside the body of the email message.

ank

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