To its credit, my employer offers a number of different e-mail solutions but, unfortunately, the best option is still Groupwise. Several months ago an e-mail went around to the effect that some users had tens of thousands of messages stored on the e-mail servers which was beginning to be a problem.
But, while it is possible to create Groupwise archives that are stored locally, there isn’t any easy way to conver those archives into a form that is very useful. Apparently creating a utility that would convert Groupwise archives to something like Unix e-mail format would bankrupt Novell, so they don’t do it.
After spending a couple weeks looking for a decent solution, I stumbled across Nexic’s Personal Publisher which takes Groupwise archives and can convert them to a number of different formats. It is almost $60, but if you’re like me and you’ve got thousands of e-mail messages trapped in Groupwise archive format, Personal Publisher does get the job done.