Several months ago, I moved Winmail, soundmodem, direwolf, and other needed software completely off several laptops and computers. The issue was that I was ending up with mail all over the place and not in one location.
My packet "life" is now completely from a USB highspeed flashdrive. It will run completely off the flashdrive on any computer or laptop. However, that leaves radiomail use out. I use it periodically but have no known way to get the email out and on my flashdrive. I know there's an export option in radiomail but that's just for import later to radiomail.
Does anyone know of a method to export from radiomail and import to Winmail -- even if manual and/or needs some conversion?
Great topic to bring up Brian, certainly one of the main drawback of Winlink reminiscent of POP3 email days.
RadioMail exports each individual message from every mailbox. You can select any destination, including iCloud drive, so files can easily be retrieve on other systems. Each message is store in a file with extension .b2f. It is following the same format as Pat. It's basically a serialized representation on how the message would be sent over the wire with the B2F protocol prior to lzhuf compression. Headers and message body in plain ascii followed by attachments if any in binary.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to convert a B2F format file into a MIME filetype which is what Winmail saves it's files as.
Winmail saves all it's mail in a directory called "Messages" under a directory for your callsign. They are ALL there but in MIME format. I'm not sure how it differentiates which folders they are in when you are in Winmail. I see a Data.gmdb file which has SQLite 3 in it -- that would be my initial guess.
I guess, at least for now, I can export them and read them with any text editor in the B2F format.