I have found the following perl script online to convert a msg file saved from Outlook into a mime file.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

use Email::Outlook::Message;
use Email::LocalDelivery;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;
use File::Basename;
use vars qw($VERSION);
$VERSION = "0.903";

my $verbose = '';
my $mboxfile = '';
my $help = '';
GetOptions(
  'mbox=s' => \$mboxfile,
  'verbose' => \$verbose,
  'help|?' => \$help) or pod2usage(2);
pod2usage(1) if $help;

defined $ARGV[0] or pod2usage(2);

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
  my $mail = new Email::Outlook::Message($file, $verbose)->to_email_mi
+me->as_string;
  if ($mboxfile ne '') {
    Email::LocalDelivery->deliver($mail, $mboxfile);
  } else {
    my $basename = basename($file, qr/\.msg/i);
    my $outfile = "$basename.mime";
    open OUT, ">:utf8", $outfile
      or die "Can't open $outfile for writing: $!";
    print OUT $mail;
    close OUT;
  }
}

[download]

It is working good, and a huge THANK YOU to the author. The reason I am posing here is that if I want to use this script, I need to initiate it by entering the following:

$ perl ./msg.pl *msg

What I am trying to accomplish is scan the entire directory for msg files, and parse them accordingly.

my @mimefiles = <*.mime>;
foreach my $mimefile (@mimefiles) {
foo....
}

[download]

As a novice perl programmer, could someone offer a suggestion at how I would go about accomplishing my goal of not having to enter the ' *msg'? Thank you for your time.

In reply to Convert msg files to mime by TheBigAmbulance

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.