| [reply] |
Thanks acquarium and natetut. I found a link to a perlmonk sample code snipit. I had to modify the code a little bit since the original did not work, but I think I have it working now. The only header information that I am able to get are the Sendername, To, Subject and Body. I am unable to get the messageid, or the date, or any other header information and I do not see them anywhere in win32 ole that I could use to modify the code for them. I added a counter and am renaming the images in sequential order but by this method the same messge will have different id's depending on when I run the script.
This is working great for my inbox. However, I do not see where or how to open a standalone PST file.
| [reply] |
Here's a way to do it on Lotus Notes 136382 that plus Win32::OLE should get you started. | [reply] |
Hi, nnigam
There are only a couple of ways of doing this (opening the pst).
- As part of Outlook or MAPI where a pst file is represented as a Message Store
- As an individual file
I don't know how to do (2) but I know a project that does. Have a look at LibPST at either http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox or http://freshmeat.net/projects/libpst/. If you can convert the pst to mbox format you can then use one of the standard mail modules to do what you want.
HTH --
Mark
| [reply] |
Thank you. Both point to libpst, and it looks promising. I will have to compile it though before I can try it out. Is a compiled version available anywhere?
This would be good, because I have found a program, Mhonarc that can convert the mbox format to html pages, and then I have created a perl script to convert them all to text format which is what I want. Can't have a virus in text.
How would I go about 1. Looking over Win32::Ole, I do not see how to open message store folders. I will play around with this somemore today and see what I can find out.
| [reply] |
OK. I do not have a C compiler here so could not compile the libpst files. I will do that to be able to process standalone pst files without the need for outlook.
I have converted an old sample program I saw on this website to handle any folder in outlook and export messages as text files named msgXXXXX in order. All attachments are also exported in native format with the msgxxxxx tacked on to the beginning of the file.
If anyone is interested, I would be willing to post the working code here. Currently, I just modify the source code to point to the folder to process, but may make a front end to pass as parameters.
| [reply] |
