CentOS - Oct 2006 - (no subject) many .eml files with attachments to process

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

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

On 11/10/06, Paul Malinowski <paul at 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/

Will.
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On 11/10/06, Paul Malinowski <paul at fish4.co.uk>
wrote:
> 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?
I doubt you'll find what you're looking for exactly. You'll need to
do
some work to find the the individual tools to perform each required
job then plug them together, in order, yourself.

Will.