[Chicago-talk] Re: Extracting info from Outlook's *.pst files
Emil Janev
ejanev2 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 21 14:44:02 CST 2004
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.
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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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