Converting MSG to EML

Today, I received a MSG file (which is related to the Microsoft Outlook fileformat) in my mailbox. I was unable to open the file in Ubuntu, so I had to find a solution!

MSGConvert

By using Google, I was able to find a script which converts my MSG file to an EML file: http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/

Perl

The script is written in Perl, so you need ... Perl

$ dpkg -l perl
ii  perl                                  5.10.0-24ubuntu4                      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language

If you don't have Perl, install it:

$ sudo aptitude install perl

Perl dependencies

I was missing some dependencies. You can install them using the following command:

$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install ##REPLACE_BY_PACKAGE_NAME##'

The list I installed:

• Email::Outlook::Message
• Email::LocalDelivery
• Getopt::Long
• Pod::Usage
• File::Basename
• Message::Simple
• Email::MIME::Creator
• OLE::Storage_Lite
• File::Path::Expand
• Email::FolderType

Running the script

$ perl -w msgconvert.pl ##MY_MESSAGE.MSG##

Happy converting! ;-)