http://qs321.pair.com?node_id=136382
Category: E-Mail Programs
Author/Contact Info Kyle Krom (buckaduck)
Description: This Win32 program extracts all email messages from your Lotus Notes account, and saves the text and all of the attachments to your hard drive.

Some of this code was based on the excellent program getnotes.pl

# 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;
}