Migrating mail from Outlook Express

[Eleanor Joslin <eleanor@dreamvine.org.uk>]

I am in the process of migrating from Windows to Debian and am gradually
setting up all the bits I'm going to need in order to dump Windows
entirely.  I've hit a stumbling block with my email archives - I've been
using Microsoft Outlook Express 5.  It saves mailbox files in a weird
format that even Word can't read, and it can't export to anything useful.  
It can save individual files as plain text, but since I have many hundreds
of them, I'd rather not do that.

Does anyone know, is there a utility for converting OE5 files to something
Linux can read?  Or a way of automating the coversion to text of hundreds
of old messages?  I know I brought this problem on myself but please help.

	Eleanor Joslin