Collecting E-mails for Legal Deposition

A minor quibble: you are not the traditional expert witness (some impartial college prof or P.E. called in for his expert and independent opinion) but a percipient witness with expertise, because you have seen and heard what the party to the suit -- your client -- has written and said. You are like the primary physician called in to testify to the surgeon's malpractice case.

I would find someone to write you a script.

You live in a dream world if you think there's such a thing as an impartial expert witness. Each side hires their own.

Yup. Sounds like the solution. ...Jim Thompson

Eudora stores the files in human-readable .mbx files.

It would probably take about a day to do that manually (and might result in the odd error). The script idea would work okay.

Another method would be to create a mailbox just for the target files and filter the messages (setting up an appropriate filter function and using Special->Filter Messages in Eudora) to that mailbox. Inspect, then select all and print out all the messages to a PDF or whatever.

Whatever method you use, be sure to check that you've got them all and no extras-- it's VERY easy to miss ones that were sent from a different computer or whatever depending on what criteria you are using to do the selection.

Yep. It dawned on me to use a filter, with ID criteria and a date range, and filter them into a new mailbox _folder_, which allowed me to make it a text file... 228,126 lines... I hope the attorneys enjoy it ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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They're going to pick at your filter methodology, to make sure they have everything that could possibly be related.

Do the opposition's attornys get a printed copy? ;~) Art

Maybe, but the request is for E-mails between me and client, so I filtered on Any Header = client name, and date before... ...Jim Thompson

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They get a text file, to print, if they want ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Law firms prefer eDiscovery now. They'll prop up a few paralegals and cheap JDs in front of a screen to flag significant documents.

Oh, they'll love it. More documents means more work means more fees.

Sort by name, select the emails, print them to a PDF and concatenate the PDFs into a single file (or just ZIP them together).

If you are remotely involved in the case, you are not impartial, so spamtrap1888 is on the money.

I would migrate the mail to a more modern program (Thunderbird) and then you can simply search or write rules to get the desired email.

Saying you use Eudora is like saying you use a walkman.

On a sunny day (Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:51:06 -0700) it happened miso wrote in :

I have been using pine since it was invented :-)

Eudora's mailbox files are in plain text (anything with an .mbx extension). The start and end of each message is clear. You can have your son write a program to parse out the relevent emails.

I just dumped headers and all, anything with @clientname.com... let the lawyuhs decipher it ;-) ...Jim Thompson

I would write a program that read the source(s) in date order and then copied/wrote desired results to separate file. Even if it took 3-4 hours to write and debug, time/effort spent would make for a winner.