NAME

msgconvert - Convert Outlook .msg files to mbox format

SYNOPSIS

msgconvert [options] <file.msg>...

msgconvert --outfile <outfile> <file.msg>

  Options:
    --mbox <file>      deliver messages to mbox file <file>
    --outfile <oufile> write message to <outfile> or - for STDOUT
    --verbose          be verbose
    --help             help message

OPTIONS

--mbox

    Deliver to the given mbox file instead of creating individual .eml
    files.
    

--outfile

    Writes the message into the outfile instead of individual .eml files. For
    STDOUT "-" can be used as outfile. This option cannot be used together with
    multiple <file.msg> instances.
    

--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--2020 by Matijs van Zuijlen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.