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Hi,
I was wondering about a way in order to read groupwise messages without the need of having the groupwise client instaled.
We are about to move from GW 5.5 to exchange 2000 without a migration data. We do not want to migrate the messages, but we are searching for a way to save some of those messages into a readble format.
Groupwise Archive is not a solution, due to the fact that it needs the GW client in order to read them, unless another piece of program can open & read the archive.

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by quebombones

I?m afraid, no such ligh client file access already exist.
What you can do is:
1.- Save the file to a .mlm into disk and read them with workpad. Any graphs or html code will be replaced with strange characters. You were also be prompted to save every attach file as included in the mail, as a separate file, thus loosing the integrity of the message.
2.- Perform a GW archive on a shared folder by right clicking every important message and chhosing Archive. Files were saved into a database format only accesable by GW, but in this way you can remove your gw system but only have to have the client installed into the pc as a "Hit the road user"
Once you removed the software client you will lose the ability to access those files.
3.- Anotherchance will be remove all unnecesary mail messages and setup a Web Access server. You will read all the desired messages, no client instaled, but have to mantain the entry groupwise system plus the webaccess server.
4.- Same as 3 but migrate the emails to the new platform selected.

Have a nice day.

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