I could use this!
Email it to the list please!

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bud Durland
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 11:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] utility to parse mbx files?


David Roush wrote:

>Bud, I have only been able to find Perl scripts mainly for linux. I am
>looking for a simple stand alone utility that will recurse the folders of a
>specified directory looking for mbx files and create a separate file (in
the
>folder of the mbx file) beginning at each "From <" (each separate message).
>Would this be too much of a problem? How could I repay you for your
efforts?
>

I've got a "bare bones" version of it complete, and will e-mail it to
you after a little more testing (and lunch).

It's a Win32 command-line (console) utility called MBOX2MSG.EXE.
There's 2 steps to using it,  make a list of mail boxes, then use the
program to break the mail boxes into messages:

This command goes first:

C:\>  DIR C:\IMAIL\*.BOX /S/B >C:\IMAIL\BOXLIST.TXT


It creates text file with the file name of each mailbox in the format
C:\IMAIL\USERS\USERNAME\BOXNAME.BOX.  If you want, you can now edit the
file to remove mailboxes from processing (like "TRASH").

Then, run the program, redirecting input to read the new text file:

C:\>  MBOX2MSG < C:\IMAIL\BOXLIST.TXT


This will read each mailbox file, and product a text file for each
message.  The file name is a comination of the mailbox name (MAIN, etc)
& the message number (i.e. MAIN_00001.MSG), and is created in the same
directory as the mailbox file.  No attempt is made to decode attachments
or any of that -- All the message text is saved in the file.

The program is about 29K.  I'll e-mail it to you, or if no one minds,
I'll e-mail it to the list.


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