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Trial and after 30 days
 
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I am currently doing my trail of TB with several accounts and intend to continue for the full 30 days. At this point (after 5 days) I like what I see/experience but there is still a lot to learn.
However, one important question: I understand that the trial has to be limited to certain period and 30 days is fair. However, what happens after 30 days? If I decide not to continue or upgrade to the paid version, will I still have access to the emails received during the trial period. I have no problem with the functionality being restricted or incoming or outgoing emails be prevented but I sure don't want to risk the mail of a whole month.
Can someone please clarify before I get in too deep? :D  
 
 
 
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The mail get inaccessible via TB, but unless you've installed it with OTFE (On The Fly Encryption) enabled you can always access the messages with a text editor.
Also TB supports exporting mail to various formats, so you could export everything on the last day to a common format like .msg or unix mailbox.
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Roelof, thanks for the response but could you be a bit more specific.

I tried to open the TBB/TBI folders already existing with Notepad but this is rather clumsy and given the number of emails expected hardly a practical solution. How would I ever find the info - it's like the needle in the haystack.

As for the exporting, I just tried the export function under Tools but that seems to work only for an individual email. How do I export the whole lot or at least all emails in a certain account? I looked up the help file but that provides for some batch export but the info is very technical (at least for me). Is there no easy way to export a whole folder with messages so that I could still access individual emails from a different program if necessary? Is there any way I can import them in OE, Outlook, Opera or any other program?

I am still keen on continuing with TB as I like the various filter and customizing options I am slowly discovering. However, I need to be certain that I am not losing one month of information if I later decide to go back to some other program.
 
 
 
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The export tool works on the selected messages, so you select all messages in a folder and export them.

In order to get them into OE, you export them to .eml to a given directory and afterwards select them all in the explorer and drag them to the OE window.

I think that Opera supports import from unix mailbox.

The best way to get them into Outlook used to be via OE.
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Thanks for taking the time to explain this in detail.
I followed the instructions for OE and this is doing everything I may need.
For the time being, I am happy to continue trialling and hopefully will not have to change back anyway.
Thank again :D  
 
 
 
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