I have found the following perl script online to convert a msg file saved from Outlook into a mime file.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use Email::Outlook::Message;
use Email::LocalDelivery;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;
use File::Basename;
use vars qw($VERSION);
$VERSION = "0.903";
my $verbose = '';
my $mboxfile = '';
my $help = '';
GetOptions(
'mbox=s' => \$mboxfile,
'verbose' => \$verbose,
'help|?' => \$help) or pod2usage(2);
pod2usage(1) if $help;
defined $ARGV[0] or pod2usage(2);
foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
my $mail = new Email::Outlook::Message($file, $verbose)->to_email_mi
+me->as_string;
if ($mboxfile ne '') {
Email::LocalDelivery->deliver($mail, $mboxfile);
} else {
my $basename = basename($file, qr/\.msg/i);
my $outfile = "$basename.mime";
open OUT, ">:utf8", $outfile
or die "Can't open $outfile for writing: $!";
print OUT $mail;
close OUT;
}
}
It is working good, and a huge THANK YOU to the author. The reason I am posing here is that if I want to use this script, I need to initiate it by entering the following:
$ perl ./msg.pl *msg
What I am trying to accomplish is scan the entire directory for msg files, and parse them accordingly.
my @mimefiles = <*.mime>;
foreach my $mimefile (@mimefiles) {
foo....
}
As a novice perl programmer, could someone offer a suggestion at how I would go about accomplishing my goal of not having to enter the ' *msg'? Thank you for your time.
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