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

Jeremy Hubble jhubble at core.com
Tue Jan 13 12:10:27 CST 2004


Mozilla has an Outlook import feature that is fairly reliable.  (Though
I have only used it with a 100 Meg PST)  You could probably dig through
the source tree to see its guts.  (And if you're really in the mood,
create a perl module!)

Jeremy

> Hi Guys,
> 
> Is there any Perl module for reading information from Outlook's *.pst
files.
> I don't have any expirience about this meter.
> 
> My colleague is having problems with Outlook. The problems started
with having "Outlook.pst"
> file reaching 1.8 GB.
> 
> My taught was as a last resort, if there is any posibility to extract
the information ( even
> limited ) from those *.pst files using some Perl Module. I took a
quick look at CPAN, but I
> couldnt recognize anything.
> 
> I tried something like "Outlook Recovery" Demo, but the result wasn't
usable ( it was causing
> problems when tried to be imported in Outlook ).
> 
> I tried also "ForMorph" demo. It imported some messages, limited to
500 KB, and without
> attachments.
> 
> I personally use Outlook Express, and haven't had any problem with it yet.
> 
> Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance,
> Emil
> 
> 
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:42:20 -0600
> From: Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com>
> Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] Extracting info from Outlook's *.pst files
> To: "Chicago.pm chatter" <chicago-talk at mail.pm.org>
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> > My colleague is having problems with Outlook. The problems started
with having "Outlook.pst"
> > file reaching 1.8 GB.
> > 
> > My taught was as a last resort, if there is any posibility to
extract the information ( even
> > limited ) from those *.pst files using some Perl Module. I took a
quick look at CPAN, but I
> > couldnt recognize anything.
> 
> There's a C library out there for extracting stuff, but I don't know how
> well it works.
> 
> I would suggest you go thru the Win32::OLE automation and extract the
> data that way.
> 
> 
> xoa
> 
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