gromox-oxm2mt

Name

gromox-oxm2mt — Utility for analysis of Outlook .msg files

Synopsis

gromox-oxm2mt [-pt] input.msg

Description

gromox-oxm2mt reads an Outlook .msg file, and re-exports the data in a Gromox-specific mailbox transfer format to stdout for consumption by pipe by the gromox-mt2exm(8gx) program. Optionally, oxm2mt can print a tree summary of the message.

Options

--decap=n: Select attachment number n's embedded message as the "top-level" message and discard the rest of the outer message. n is 1-based.
-p: Show properties in detail (enhances -t).
-t: Show a diagnostic tree view of the source data as it is being read.

Examples

Import of a message to drafts:

gromox-oxm2mt saved.msg | gromox-mt2exm -u user@domain.example -B drafts

Normative references

MS-CFB: Compound File Binary Format (CFBF)
MS-OXMSG: Outlook Item (.msg) File Format

Outlook message files use the "Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) / Component Object Model (COM) structured storage compound file implementation binary file format", or just CFB/CFBF for short. It resembles something of a FAT filesystem. The file(1) utility identifies those as "CDFV2 Microsoft Outlook Message" (Compound Document Format). A proposed MIME type is "application/vnd.ms-outlook".

oxm2mt uses the libolecf C library to read the CDF structure of .msg files per [MS-CFB], and then applies own code to make sense of the files as per [MS-OXMSG].