# This program extracts email messages from a # Lotus Notes account. # # Email messages will be saved in directories # named for the mail folder they're stored in. # All of these directories will be stored # under a new top-level directory named # "C:\temp\mail" by default, but this can be # overridden with the -d flag. # # For each email message, a subdirectory will # be created, containing the text and attachments # for that message. These subdirectories are # currently named by sequential numbers instead of # by their subject titles. That's on my TODO list # to fix; it shouldn't be too hard. # # Some folders in the Notes mail database are not # really mail folders, so I try to skip them. # Currently I skip all folders whose names are in # parentheses (except for Inbox), and the folders # in the array @badlist. You can customize @badlist # as necessary. # # By default, Lotus Notes will open the email # database for the PC's default user. To access # the email for a different user: open Notes # and switch to another userid first; then run # this program while Notes is still open. use strict; use English; use warnings; use vars qw($opt_d $opt_v); use Getopt::Std; use Win32::OLE; # Command-line options: # -d dirname Save everything under the directory "dirname" # -v Verbose reporting of progress getopt("d"); # Define a directory to store the results my $dir = $opt_d || 'C:/temp/mail'; mkdir ($dir, 0755) or die "Can't make $dir: $!"; # Define a list of "Normal" folders to skip my @badlist = ('_Archiving', 'Archiving\\Age of Documents', 'Discussion Threads', 'Events'); # Auto-print carriage returns $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = "\n"; # Open the email database in Lotus Notes # (To use another person's email database, switch to # their userid in Notes before running this program) my $notes = Win32::OLE->new('Notes.NotesSession') or die "Can't open Lotus Notes"; my $database = $notes->GetDatabase("",""); $database->OpenMail; # Verify the server connection print "Connected to ", $database->{Title}, " on ", $database->{Server} if $opt_v; # Loop over all of the folders foreach my $viewname (GetViews($database)) { # Get the object for this View print "Checking folder $viewname..."; my $view = $database->GetView($viewname); # Create a subdirectory to store the messages in $viewname =~ tr/()$//d; $viewname =~ s(\\)(.)g; my $path = "$dir/$viewname"; mkdir ($path, 0755) or die "Can't make directory $path: $!"; chdir ($path); # Get the first document in the folder my $num = 1; my $doc = $view->GetFirstDocument; next unless $doc; GetInfo($num, $path, $doc); # Get the remaining documents in the folder while ($doc = $view->GetNextDocument($doc)) { $num++; GetInfo($num, $path, $doc); } } sub GetInfo { my ($num, $path, $doc) = @_; print "Processing message $num" if $opt_v; # Create a new subdirectory based on the message number my $subdir = sprintf("%02d",$num); mkdir ($subdir, 0755) or die "Can't make $subdir subdirectory: $!"; # Write the contents of the message to a file open (TEXTFILE, ">$subdir/message.txt") or die "Can't create $subdir message file: $!"; print TEXTFILE "From: ", $doc->{From}->[0]; print TEXTFILE "Subject: ", $doc->{Subject}->[0]; print TEXTFILE $doc->{Body}; close TEXTFILE; # Save attachments as files, if any my $array_ref = $doc->{'$FILE'}; foreach my $attachment (@$array_ref) { if ($attachment) { ExtractAttachment($doc, "$path/$subdir", $attachment); } } } sub ExtractAttachment { my ($doc, $path, $filename) = @_; print "Extracting attachment $filename" if $opt_v; # Get a Windows-friendly pathname for the file $path = "$path/$filename"; $path =~ tr/\//\\/; # Save the attachment to a file my $attachment = $doc->GetAttachment($filename); $attachment->ExtractFile($path); } sub GetViews { my ($database) = @_; my @views = (); # Loop through all of the views in this database my $array_ref = $database->{Views}; foreach my $view (@$array_ref) { my $name = $view->{Name}; # We only want folders if it's the Inbox # or a normal folder name with no parentheses if (($name eq '($Inbox)') or ($name !~ /\(.+\)/)) { # Add the folder name to the @views list # if it's not in the @badlist push(@views, $name) unless (grep { $name eq $_ } @badlist); } } return @views; }