[Xapian-discuss] Parsing .msg files

[Reini Urban]

Olly Betts schrieb:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:53:26AM +0930, Frank J Bruzzaniti wrote:
>> I'm trying to parse .msg files.
>>
>> I found a patch on trac but it looks like it uses a program called 
>> outlook2txt which I can;t find anywhere.
> 
> Do you mean this patch:
> 
> http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/285
> 
> Then it's "outlook2text" (with an "e") and the script is included in the
> patch.  It seems to use msgconvert to do the bulk of the work, and the
> patch also includes a copy of that.

Yes, this is mine.
With msgconvert you can read .msg files, but not .pst containers. 
readpst cannot use newer outlook formats.
For that you'd need to use some COM API.
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