On 11/10/06, Paul Malinowski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, I'm looking for some package in Centos which will provide en/decoding of mime formats. I have over 1000 outlook mails to process, and it would be great to script that, but centos 4.4 doesn't have a metamail package and I couldn't find anything connected to decoding and encoding of MIME. Is there any tool in Centos repository ?
In your previous email you stated these messages were .eml files? This implies your messages were extracted from Outlook EXPRESS rather than Outlook, this is an important distinction as they store messages extracted to Explorer (via dragging, for example) in different formats. Looking at an .eml file on a test system, they appear to be fairly straightforward MIME encoded messages and I'd have thought any number of Perl/Python/whatever libraries would be able to handle extraction of their attachments. http://search.cpan.org/search?query=mime&mode=all http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html http://www.broobles.com/eml2mbox/index.html Outlook's extracted message format, .msg seems a little more "special", http://www.fileformat.info/format/outlookmsg/ It contains multiple streams which would need decoding. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-May/219401.html http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/ It would also appear you can import them into mbox format using Thunderbird. I seem to remember there are also a couple of libraries and associated tools for converting dbx/mbx/pst mail stores into mbox. http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/ Will. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
