NAME¶
msgconvert - Convert Outlook .msg files to mbox format
SYNOPSIS¶
msgconvert [options] <file.msg>...
Options:
--mbox <file> deliver messages to mbox file <file>
--verbose be verbose
--help help message
OPTIONS¶
- --mbox
-
Deliver to the given mbox file instead of creating individual .eml
files.
- --verbose
-
Print information about skipped parts of the .msg file.
- --help
-
Print a brief help message.
DESCRIPTION¶
This program will convert the messages contained in the Microsoft Outlook files
<file.msg>... to message/rfc822 files with extension .eml.
Alternatively, if the --mbox option is present, all messages will be put in
the given mbox file. This program will complain about unrecognized OLE parts
in the input files on stderr.
BUGS¶
The program will not check whether output files already exist. Also, if you feed
it "foo.MSG" and "foo.msg", you'll end up with one
"foo.eml", containing one of the messages.
Not all data that's in the .MSG file is converted. There simply are some parts
whose meaning escapes me. One of these must contain the date the message was
sent, for example. Formatting of text messages will also be lost. YMMV.
AUTHOR¶
Matijs van Zuijlen, "matijs@matijs.net"
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
Copyright 2002--2014 by Matijs van Zuijlen
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.