I am very enthusiastic about the potential use of things like ePADD for both appraisal and access to email collections. I’ve had a go with this and with Aid4Mail in their demo versions and can definitely seeing them being useful for future work especially in conjunction with ePADD which I’ve also written about before. I followed this up by giving as live demo (brave I know) of Emailchemy – a tool for converting email to different formats. Getting people to weed their emails in advance of depositing sounds like it could be challenging and we were pointed towards a recent IRMS podcast where Vincent Hoolt of the Netherlands National Archives discussed the pitfalls of exactly this, talking about how they had inadvertently received the divorce papers of a government official – not just embarrassing but a GDPR nightmare! The thrill of a live demo of Emailchemy (photo author’s own) One of the group mentioned James Lappin’s recent blog post on this very topic and I shall be reading his article with great interest.
#Emailchemy professional
We discussed the attitudes people have towards their emails and how the mixing of personal and professional in email accounts made the management and capture of email particularly challenging. It required developing a new deposit agreement and some significant degree of negotiation but to me sounds like a huge success and I look forward to hearing on further updates on this, hoping we might be able to emulate their success. Another group member shared a success story in that they had succeeded where I have failed (I am not bitter about this at all!) in getting a deposit of the inbox of one of the Chief Officers in their organisation. I don’t think anyone has the answer to these issues but there would be useful work mapping out what might be possible and the sorts of tools needed to achieve this kind of capture.
#Emailchemy update
mbox and so on and how much or little influence you might have about asking for a particular format.Ī couple of others shared their work – one archivist had been collecting Covid update emails from the Chief Executive’s Office as part of their contemporary collecting strategy but had concerns (don’t we all) about embedded links to external content including videos. We talked about the various formats that you were likely to come across –. The archives were having trouble opening the emails* and had concerns that converting them to another format as that created problems with the attachments… We had a useful discussion around how much of the available literature addresses the issue of migrating and dealing with entire mailboxes rather than having a handful of emails amongst other material (I’ve certainly come across the latter scenario more than once). We kicked off with a case study from a group member who had received some emails as part of a deposit of various digital records from a Parish Council (no not Handforth!) including emails saved onto a cd in an.
This meeting had a special theme – email preservation – which proved a popular topic with many and we had some lively discussion covering a range of topics from normalisation to appraisal and access. It doesn’t seem five minutes since the last meeting of Midipres (and I said that last time) but here we are in 2021 and time for another Midlands Preservation Network event which brings together practitioners from across the UK Midlands region to share and discuss their digital preservation stories. No, not emails (Image by Andrys Stienstra from Pixabay) ▪ĜompuServe Classic for Macintosh (MacCIM)
◾ Utilities for splitting, sorting and merging email archives, and harvesting email addresses from email archives ◾ Embedded IMAP email server to simplify importing ◾ Industrial-strength accuracy relied upon by law enforcement and forensic agencies around the world
#Emailchemy mac
⚬ convert Windows email files on a Mac or Linux computer, and vice-versa ⚬ no need to re-install or run old email programs ⚬ cross-platform solution runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux ◾ Convert all your old email files with a single product ◾ Converts email files to open standard formats and popular closed formats These standard formats are ideal for importing, long term archival, database entry, or forensic analysis and eDiscovery.
#Emailchemy portable
You can find release notes for this version here: Įmailchemy converts email from the closed, proprietary file formats of the most popular (and many of yesterday’s forgotten) email applications to standard, portable formats that any application can use.
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