MBX2MBOX(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation MBX2MBOX(1)NAMEmbx2mbox - Converts Outlook .mbx and .dbx files into standard RFC822
mail files.
SYNOPSISmbx2mbox [-dc] <files ending in .mbx or .dbx>
DESCRIPTIONmbx2mbox attempts to convert Microsoft's proprietary .mbx and .dbx
formats to the standard RFC822 mail format used by programs like
Pine, Eudora, and Netscape. The .mbx and .dbx files provided as
arguments to mbx2mbox are processed and output to files having the
same name, except without the .mbx extension.
Mailboxes from newer versions of Outlook and Outlook express may not
be supported. Be sure to compress your mailbox using Outlook, which
should help remove some of the binary data from the file. Also be
aware that this script has not been tested for Outlook versions since
circa 1997, and may not work.
For a survey of alternative methods of converting Outlook mailboxes,
visit the mbx2mbox homepage at http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net/.
OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS-c Causes mbx2mbox to more agressively remove binary-like characters.
(This will remove characters that are part of the foreign language
character set.)
-d Debug mode.
EXAMPLES
Process saved.mbx and sent.dbx, creating the standard mail files
"saved" and "sent".
mbx2mbox saved.mbx sent.dbx
AUTHOR
David Coppit, <david@coppit.org>, http://coppit.org/
SEE ALSOelm(1), mail(1), grep(1), perl(1), printmail(1), Mail::Internet(3)
Crocker, D. H., Standard for the Format of Arpa Internet Text
Messages, RFC822.
POD ERRORS
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
below:
Around line 237:
'=item' outside of any '=over'
Around line 246:
You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'
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