[Chicago-talk] Re: Extracting info from Outlook's *.pst files

jason scott gessner jason at multiply.org
Wed Jan 21 18:58:44 CST 2004


when i had this problem it was due to spaces in the PATH environment 
variable or the path to the files.

check for the first and if that is ok, try moving to a dir with no 
spaces.

-jason scott gessner
     jason at multiply.org

On Jan 21, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Emil Janev wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks to Ed and Andy for remembering the issue.
>
> I tried to install the module, and I immediately had a problem ( call 
> me Mr. Problem if you
> want :-).
> Here are the extracts:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> C:\Perl\Z_Modules\Mail-Outlook-0.05>perl Makefile.PL
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> Writing Makefile for Mail::Outlook
>
> C:\Perl\Z_Modules\Mail-Outlook-0.05>make
> Makefile:658: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
> C:\Perl\Z_MODU~1\MAIL-O~1.05>make test
> Makefile:658: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> I tried to look into the "Makefile" but nothing specific for me on 
> that line ( I am not
> familiar with it ):
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> pm_to_blib: $(TO_INST_PM)
> 	@$(PERLRUNINST) -MExtUtils::Install \
>         -e "pm_to_blib(qw[ <<pmfiles.dat 
> ],'$(INST_LIB)\auto','$(PM_FILTER)')"
>
> $(PM_TO_BLIB)
> <<
> 		@$(TOUCH) $@
>
>
> # --- MakeMaker selfdocument section:
>
>
> # --- MakeMaker postamble section:
>
>
> # End.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The line with "$(PM_TO_BLIB)" is 658th.
>
> If you have suceeded installing this modulet,
>
> By the way, the file "Outlook.pst" of 1.8 GB is not attached to 
> runnign outlook, but archived
> on other place ( as trying to import it was making outlook not 
> responding ). Possibly it is
> corrupted.
>
> Thanks,
> Emil
>
> --- Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> I caught this off the module-authors list. It looks like barbie is 
>> going
>> to be releasing a module to get at Outlook files if you are still
>> interested, and are running Perl under Windows. The module isn't on
>> CPAN yet, but there is a link below for grabbing the tarball.
>>
>> //Ed
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Barbie <barbie at missbarbell.co.uk> -----
>>
>> To: module-authors at perl.org
>> From: Barbie <barbie at missbarbell.co.uk>
>> Subject: Mail::Outlook module
>> Date: 21 Jan 2004 14:00:40 +0000
>>
>> Dear Module Authors,
>>
>> Since my initial attempts to send mail via Outlook attached to an 
>> Exchange server, I now
>> have a set of modules that can also read email items within Outlook 
>> Mail Folders. Initially
>> this was a module for me to learn how to use the Win32 API via Perl, 
>> but wondered whether
>> it might be useful to anyone else.
>>
>> My current name for the distribution is
>>
>> Mail-Outlook
>>
>> which includes the following modules:
>>
>> Mail::Outlook
>> Mail::Outlook::Folder
>> Mail::Outlook::Message
>>
>> Each uses an OO style interface, with the Mail::Outlook module being 
>> the master module that
>> should be used to interface to the outside world.
>>
>> I have two questions ....
>>
>> 1) Is this a distribution worth uploading to CPAN?
>> 2) Is Mail::Outlook a suitable namespace or are there better 
>> suggestions?
>>
>> The current version is available online [1] if anyone wanted to have 
>> a look at it.
>>
>> [1] http://birmingham.pm.org/modules/Mail-Outlook-0.05.tar.gz
>>
>>> From studying the MailBox distribution, there are distributions on 
>>> CPAN, which read the
>> Outlook Express folders and email messages (although badly named IMO 
>> as they only refer to
>> the DBX extension, but that's another story), but nothing that refers 
>> to Outlook
>> specifically.
>>
>> All thoughts and suggestions gratefully accepted.
>>
>> Additional:
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>>
>> This module was written to overcome the problem of sending mail 
>> messages,
>> where Microsoft (R) Outlook (R) is the only mail application 
>> available.
>> However, since it's inception the module has expanded to handle a 
>> range of
>> Outlook mail functionality.
>>
>> Note that when sending messages, the module uses the named owner of 
>> the
>> Outbox MAPI Folder in order to access the correct objects. Thus the 
>> From
>> field of a new message is predetermined, and a read only property.
>>
>> If using the 'Win32::OLE::Const' constants, only the following are 
>> currently
>> supported:
>>
>>   olFolderInbox
>>   olFolderOutbox
>>   olFolderSentMail
>>
>> DEPENDENCIES
>>
>> The distribution requires the following modules:
>>
>>   Win32::OLE
>>   Win32::OLE::Const
>>
>> For testing purposes, the following modules are desirable, but not 
>> essential:
>>
>>   Test::Pod
>>
>>
>> Barbie.
>> -- 
>> Barbie (@missbarbell.co.uk) | Birmingham Perl Mongers | 
>> http://birmingham.pm.org/
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