[gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[JimD]

Does anyone know of an app to convert outlook *.msg files to a text
email?  I have some individual email (*.msg) files from Outlook, not a
.pst archive.

I dragged-n-dropped the emails from crappy Outlook and now have them on
my Gentoo box.  I _thought_ they would have been stored as regular old
email with one email in each file.  Nope.  Upon opening any of the MSG
email files in VIM, all I see is binary crap.

The only "docs" I have found on the Outlook MSG file format so far is:

"MSG files are outlook messages saved as files.  They are saved as "COM
stuctured storage OLE2 compound documents" or "DocFile", which is the
same technique used by Word, Excel and many many more."

Can't MS even do email right?

Thanks,

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[Mick]

On 02/06/06, JimD <jimdageek@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't MS even do email right?

Err, no.

Have you tried importing them in a mail client (kmail, thunderbird,
Opera)?  I haven't tried it myself, but that's how I would go about it
in the first instance.  Should that fail, you could try Openoffice,
Koffice and or Abiword in case they can convert it into a .doc file
and so read it, before you save it as a .txt file.  If that works you
could probably write a macro for doing it.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[Richard Fish]

On 6/2/06, JimD <jimdageek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can't MS even do email right?

This was a rhetorical question, right?

Anyway, the best way I have found to migrate messages from outlook is
to setup an IMAP server, and use outlook to transfer the messages to
the imap server.  Most linux mail clients will speak to an imap
server, so you can use thunderbird, kmail, etc to transfer the
messages to local folders or text files.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[JimD]

Mick wrote:
> On 02/06/06, JimD <jimdageek@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Can't MS even do email right?
> 
> Err, no.
> 
> Have you tried importing them in a mail client (kmail, thunderbird,
> Opera)?  I haven't tried it myself, but that's how I would go about it
> in the first instance.  Should that fail, you could try Openoffice,
> Koffice and or Abiword in case they can convert it into a .doc file
> and so read it, before you save it as a .txt file.  If that works you
> could probably write a macro for doing it.

I tried opening the .msg email file in Thunderbird.  Thunderbird
actually was able to pull out the From: To: Subject: and date.  However
the body was blank and Thunderbird showed an attachment of winmail.dat.

What I have read on the net is that the Outlook MSG format is some type
of Office like format.  I will try your suggestion of OOo.

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[JimD]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 6/2/06, JimD <jimdageek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can't MS even do email right?
> 
> This was a rhetorical question, right?
> 
> Anyway, the best way I have found to migrate messages from outlook is
> to setup an IMAP server, and use outlook to transfer the messages to
> the imap server.  Most linux mail clients will speak to an imap
> server, so you can use thunderbird, kmail, etc to transfer the
> messages to local folders or text files.
> 
> -Richard

I am running courier-imap.  I guess I can use outlook under VMware to
transfer the emails to my IMAP server.  I was hoping to be able to do it
off-line, but oh well.

Thanks,

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[Mick]

On 03/06/06, JimD <jimdageek@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am running courier-imap.  I guess I can use outlook under VMware to
> transfer the emails to my IMAP server.  I was hoping to be able to do it
> off-line, but oh well.

Oh no!  Not winmail.dat ! ! !

Ha, ha!  Another wonderful M$Windoze formating wrapper, only created
and read  by their M$Outlook client.  The winmail.dat file is in a
M$Windoze format called "Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Format", or
"MS-TNEF", some details on this format can be found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mapi/html/ca148ec3-8586-4c74-8ff8-cd542256e385.asp

On the other hand, there's a couple of converters out there for
different platforms (there's even one for Psion Epoc!), but the one
you could try in Linux is:

http://www.fentun.com/linux.html

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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[Mick]

On 03/06/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/06/06, JimD <jimdageek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am running courier-imap.  I guess I can use outlook under VMware to
> > transfer the emails to my IMAP server.  I was hoping to be able to do it
> > off-line, but oh well.
>
> Oh no!  Not winmail.dat ! ! !
>
> Ha, ha!  Another wonderful M$Windoze formating wrapper, only created
> and read  by their M$Outlook client.  The winmail.dat file is in a
> M$Windoze format called "Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Format", or
> "MS-TNEF", some details on this format can be found at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mapi/html/ca148ec3-8586-4c74-8ff8-cd542256e385.asp
>
> On the other hand, there's a couple of converters out there for
> different platforms (there's even one for Psion Epoc!), but the one
> you could try in Linux is:
>
> http://www.fentun.com/linux.html

I also found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[JimD]

Mick wrote:

> I also found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/
> 
> HTH

Thanks for the links ;)

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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Saturday 03 June 2006 12:03 skrev Mick:
> The winmail.dat file is in a
> M$Windoze format called "Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Format", or
> "MS-TNEF", some details on this format can be found at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mapi/html/
>ca148ec3-8586-4c74-8ff8-cd542256e385.asp

There seems to be a few in portage apps for this too...

$ eix tnef
* dev-perl/Convert-TNEF
     Available versions:  0.17-r2
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Convert/DOUGW/Convert-TNEF-0.17.readme
     Description:         A Perl module for reading TNEF files

* kde-base/ktnef
     Available versions:  3.4.3 3.5.2 3.5.3
     Installed:           3.5.3
     Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
     Description:         KDE Viewer for mail attachments using TNEF format

* net-mail/tnef
     Available versions:  1.3.3 1.3.4
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://world.std.com/~damned/software.html
     Description:         Decodes MS-TNEF MIME attachments

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