MSGCONVERT(1)

💌 MSGCONVERT(1) — like, the manual page for msgconvert 💌

okay so bestie, buckle up — this is the msgconvert page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally about rescuing your messages from Outlook jail. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

msgconvert — converts Outlook .msg files into mbox format. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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

and the options, laid out all cute:

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

(and yeah, <oufile> is spelled exactly like that in the original — not my typo, bestie, i'm just the messenger 💅)

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --mbox — delivers everything into the mbox file you name, instead of making a lil individual .eml file for each message. one big happy container. 👑
• --outfile — writes the message into outfile instead of the individual .eml files. you can pass - as the outfile to get STDOUT, iconic. ⚠️ heads up though: you cannot use this option together with multiple <file.msg> instances. one message, one outfile, no exceptions. 💀
• --verbose — gets chatty and prints info about the parts of the .msg file that got skipped. lowkey the most useful flag tbh. 🔍
• --help — prints a brief help message. we love a self-aware king. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: this program converts the messages contained in the Microsoft Outlook files <file.msg>... into message/rfc822 files with the extension .eml. slay. 💖

alternatively, if the --mbox option is present, all the messages get put into the given mbox file instead. one big pile, no crumbs left behind. 🍓

also, this program will complain about unrecognized OLE parts in the input files — and it complains on stderr, so bestie, don't be alarmed when it starts yelling. 😭 it's just doing its job.

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💀 BUGS 💀

okay, gathering the receipts:

• the program will not check whether output files already exist. so like... it will absolutely steamroll over your stuff. no vibe check, no warning. 🙈
• also, if you feed it "foo.MSG" and "foo.msg", you'll end up with one "foo.eml", containing one of the messages. which one? mystery. main character energy of the highest order. 😭

and the bigger one:

• not all data that's in the .MSG file is converted. there simply are some parts whose meaning escapes the author — one of these must contain the date the message was sent, for example. and formatting of text messages will also be lost. YMMV. fr fr. 🫠

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Matijs van Zuijlen, "matijs@matijs.net" — ty for your service king 🫡💜

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

Copyright 2002--2020 by Matijs van Zuijlen

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no cap, every flag, every warning, every chaotic .MSG caveat accounted for 🌸🧚

sign-off szn: this gorgeous page came to you from perl v5.42.3, dated 2022-01-23, and yes it's giving vintage but it's still serving 💅✨🎀