Accessing Outlook Express .dbx mail files from ruby

[Bill Kelly]

Hi,

All I'm really trying to do is export emails from Outlook Express
to a plain text file.

I wondered if there might be some Windows API that I could call
from ruby to accomplish this?

Thanks for any tips,

Regards,

Bill

 

[Dave Burt]

All I'm really trying to do is export emails from Outlook Express
to a plain text file.

I wondered if there might be some Windows API that I could call
from ruby to accomplish this?

First, IIRC you can easily export emails to plain text files using
Outlook Express itself. You can drag a emails from OE to a windows
explorer window to export as .eml files.

If you want to do something else and want to automate it, here are some
resources that could help:

Info on the file format and related C++ source code:
http://oedbx.aroh.de/

PHP implementation of a reader class:
http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-3479.html

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Bill Kelly]

First, IIRC you can easily export emails to plain text files using
Outlook Express itself. You can drag a emails from OE to a windows
explorer window to export as .eml files.

Thanks much for this and the links on the file format!

Now to use ruby to process the emails...


Regards,

Bill