[ILUG] Mail archive

[Paul Kelly :: Blacknight Solutions]

I found this [1] and it seems to do half of what you need. So far so good :)

[1] http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ol2mbox/libpst_0.3.4.tgz 

Also look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox/

Paul 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On 
> Behalf Of Justin
> Sent: 08 April 2004 16:50
> To: Ilug at Linux.Ie
> Subject: [ILUG] Mail archive
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> 	I've got a situation where there is a load of company 
> knowledge in emails
> on several windows based machines. Most of them are OUTLOOK .pst files
> 
> I want to do the following.
> 
> 
> 	Extract the *.pst files to some format mail archive on Linux
> 
> 	Run something to remove any viruses that may be in them
> 
> 	Run some Spam catch to identify as much Spam as possible
> 
> 	Run something like fetchmail to pull down any more mail 
> the come to
> account, and feed it into the archive - complete with viruses and Spam
> identified or removed.
> 
> 	(opt by cool) Strip any attachments into a samba share, 
> and link to it from
> the mail message it came from.
> 
> 	Have some web based interface where I can index and 
> search those mails, by
> account or content/subject/etc/ etc...  and browse threads
> 
> 	Run something to identify and delete exact duplicates, 
> in case the same
> mail is in several pst files
> 
> What would you guys recommend for those steps separately or 
> otherwise...
> 
> TIA.	Justin.
> 
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