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In search for a working Microsoft Outlook PST file converterby andreas1234567 (Vicar) |
on Apr 25, 2008 at 07:44 UTC ( [id://682763]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
andreas1234567 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I find myself in a situation where I have 4-5 years of (work) email dumped to 6 Microsoft Outlook PST files (some 800MB combined). The objective is to convert all that email into a text format that I can view, search and print from the command line on a Unix like operating system.
The current email service is outsourced (vpnc + rdesktop access), so there is no way I can interact directly with the Exchange server. I _can_ however, open the PST files in Outlook and export it to CSV there, but as Outlook can export one folder (of which I have up to 100 in each file) at the time only, it would be a long-running and error-prone, manual process. The topic has been discussed here before:
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