Exporting Messages from Outlook Express

Can anyone advise how to export my messages from OE in a comma separated values file (csv)? Alternatively, I could work with a tab delimited file if someone can help with this.
I'm using OE 5.0.6 with OS 9.2.2.
Many thx!
G3 Tower   Mac OS 9.2.x  

Jeff,
Welcome to discussions.
If you can help us by telling us what you plan to do with the messages, we may be able to provide some suggestions. Tab-delimited and CSV is a pretty dodgy format for email content. There are a host of other email applications (many free) that are only too willing to read all your mail from OE and import it into their mail database. They may then have some output options, ie. XML, which I think is 1,000,000x more preferable than CSV.
Are you planning to import the email into some FileMaker / AppleWorks or HyperCard database ?
I've had to do this more than a few times, from MS Mail (Win 3.1) to OE (OS8) to Lotus Notes (WinNT) to OE (OS9) to Outlook (W2K) to Entourage (OSX), and back again, sometimes. I've tried all the other options available to me, ie. OSX Mail as an intermediate step for some tricky conversions.
Any info you can provide about what you want to achieve will help.

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