msgconvert(1p)

Usage

msgconvert [options] <file.msg> ...

msgconvert --outfile <outfile> <file.msg>

Options: --mbox <file> deliver messages to mbox file <file> --outfile <oufile> write message to <outfile> or - for STDOUT --verbose be verbose --help help message

Options

--mbox: Deliver to the given mbox file instead of creating individual .eml files.

--outfile: Writes the message into the outfile instead of individual .eml files. For STDOUT "-" can be used as outfile. This option cannot be used together with multiple <file.msg> instances.

--verbose: Print information about skipped parts of the .msg file.

--help: Print a brief help message.

Overview

This program will convert the messages contained in the Microsoft Outlook files <file.msg>... to message/rfc822 files with extension .eml. Alternatively, if the --mbox option is present, all messages will be put in the given mbox file. This program will complain about unrecognized OLE parts in the input files on stderr.

Copyright and license

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 4 times.

--outfile since Debian 10 (Buster).