Reading an Outlook PST FIle

BaldPenguin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

My Fellow Monks:

Here is my quandry. I use Spamassassin to filter the mail on my mail server, a mail server that hosts more that just my mail. It works quite well. But those wiley spammers are good at hiding their spam from the likes of SA. I want to use the sa-learn to start teaching my bayesian filter what gets missed. Using outlook, I can automatically mark items as junk, which does it's own learning in outlook. Wanting to share this education with everyone else using the mail server, I would like to create a PERL script that reads my 'Junk Mail' folder in the Outlook PST file and runs those mails against the sa-learn binary.

Has anyone done that before, a quick search on CPAN didn't find anything, likewise my searching skills found minimal solutions here within the monestary.

Any pointers?

Don
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Re: Reading an Outlook PST FIle by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jun 13, 2005 at 06:56 UTC
I would suggest this ready rolled, free, with source code, (non Perl) solution: Personal Message Store (PST) Export Utility 1.0. You can export a PST of just the junk mail folder from outlook with File\|Export\|etc beforehand to separate out the junk. This gives you the original full headers (probably), newline separated ie in standard *nix format. cheers tachyon	[reply]
Re: Reading an Outlook PST FIle by monarch (Priest) on Jun 13, 2005 at 07:04 UTC
Just looking on the 'net I found this link which basically says that the .pst file format is protected, and accessing the files through OLE might be the way to go (with a running instance of Microsoft Outlook). A perl FAQ (How do I create a new folder in Outlook?) may be a stepping stone..	[reply]
Re^2: Reading an Outlook PST FIle by bart (Canon) on Apr 09, 2008 at 11:42 UTC
accessing the files through OLE might be the way to go This question just came up again on the Chatterbox, and looking through CPAN I found a module (by Barbie): Mail::Outlook, which apparently is built on top of Win32::OLE. So you no longer have to start from zero.	[reply]
Re: Reading an Outlook PST FIle by rob_au (Abbot) on Jun 13, 2005 at 10:08 UTC
Another option may be LibPST - See http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/. `perl -le "print unpack'N', pack'B32', '00000000000000000000001000000000'"`	[reply]


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