That's quite helpful, thanks,

At the end of the day I would like to find some tool in Centos repository which as output will give me attachment in plain/text format (attachment is either plain text either html, but if I will have a attachment as plaint/text that would be enough to process content of attachment)

Mails are coming from exchange server, and they are in eml format. Any mime tool in centos which I can use straight away rather the write a perl script with using some module from cpan?

Thanks in advance, Paul Malinowski

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Will McDonald Sent: 11 October 2006 15:26 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

On 11/10/06, Paul Malinowski paul@fish4.co.uk wrote:

Hello,

I'm looking for some package in Centos which will provide en/decoding

of

mime formats. I have over 1000 outlook mails to process, and it would

be

great to script that, but centos 4.4 doesn't have a metamail package

and

I couldn't find anything connected to decoding and encoding of MIME.

Is there any tool in Centos repository ?

In your previous email you stated these messages were .eml files? This implies your messages were extracted from Outlook EXPRESS rather than Outlook, this is an important distinction as they store messages extracted to Explorer (via dragging, for example) in different formats.

Looking at an .eml file on a test system, they appear to be fairly straightforward MIME encoded messages and I'd have thought any number of Perl/Python/whatever libraries would be able to handle extraction of their attachments.

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=mime&mode=all http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html http://www.broobles.com/eml2mbox/index.html

Outlook's extracted message format, .msg seems a little more "special", http://www.fileformat.info/format/outlookmsg/ It contains multiple streams which would need decoding.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-May/219401.html http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/

It would also appear you can import them into mbox format using Thunderbird.

I seem to remember there are also a couple of libraries and associated tools for converting dbx/mbx/pst mail stores into mbox.

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/

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