Re: Export e-mail out of Outlook?....
- From: "Herb Martin" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:32:49 -0500
"frank" <frankmcma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pr%Pe.36009$Hx4.6410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> There is no way to export out in a readable format except in outlook
> format?
>
> what are the other tools to read a pst file?
>
> any other options i can try?
>
> I just want to export in a generic format that does not require outlook to
> read...
There is "a way" -- this may not be suitable for your purposes
but it is free and it does get you the "entire message" as it would
be sent or, was in fact, received through an SMTP server:
Select MORE than one message (there is a way to do one message
but the simplest method is to select the one plus any other and
remove the extra in the next step.)
Ctrl-F to FORWARD the batch of messages to an SMTP server
that uses the format you wish (maildir, mbox, flat files).
Exim (CygWin) is what I use but Mercury will do if you just
want files or later POP/IMAP access to the files.
I have setup a "catch user" for this purpose since I use this
method to forward Spam and misclassified Ham back to my
email server.
When you select more than one file and forward you get a
multi-part MIME message with all of the selected emails
as separate ATTACHMENTS.
You will need to bust this mail on the server if you wish to
deal with each one separately:
The following (very small) Perl program will split the message
into a subdirectory (..\tmp is hardcoded here:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use MIME::Parser;
my $parser = new MIME::Parser; # Create parser
$parser->output_dir("./tmp"); # Tell it where to output
$parser->extract_nested_messages(0); # Extract messages whole?
$entity = $parser->parse(\*STDIN); # Parse an input filehandle
print "Entity: $entity\n\n" if $entity;
################# That's all ###################
Perl is on most Unix type systems and free for Windows at:
http://www.ActiveState.com
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> "Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Outlook stores its data in a PST file which is not MBox format. About the
>> only thing that can read it natively is Outlook (and a few other tools).
>>
>> "frank" <frankmcma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:37ZPe.35975$Hx4.10899@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>I have been using Outlook for quite a while now and have always exported
>>>to a CVS or Excel file when backing up. It's not bad, but viewing e-mail
>>>on a spreadsheet and losing all the attached files is not the best
>>>solution.
>>>
>>> Are there any good solutions out there? I have a "Save Mail" folder I'd
>>> like to back up every so often and be able to search and read through
>>> it. Even if it exports all the e-mails into one long document, or PDF,
>>> that would be great. Ideally I would like to save the attachments too
>>> but that is less critical.
>>>
>>> I believe Outlook stores in mbox format? So maybe a tool that works with
>>> that. Or with Outlook's archive format. Anyway...just looking for a good
>>> way to export all my emails to a normal readable file..thanks!
>>
>>
>
>
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