https://github.com/vboulaye/eml-reader

little tool to parse .eml files created from pst archive and convert them with meaningful names and searchable files
https://github.com/vboulaye/eml-reader

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little tool to parse .eml files created from pst archive and convert them with meaningful names and searchable files

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vboulaye/eml-reader
• Owner: vboulaye
• Created: 2017-07-30T21:37:05.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-01-07T22:22:39.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-18T02:05:16.782Z (7 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 282 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 8
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  • Readme: README.md

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# eml reader

just a little parser/cleaner of eml files to archive old mails in a simple searchable format.

starting from outlook pst archives, extract all eml files

```

for a in $(ls ../bak);do echo $a; readpst -e -b -o eb -j 10 -teaj ../bak/$a; done

```

otherwise extract mails from the imap server using the imap-archiver.

the connection must be defined in th imap-secret.js file:

```javascript

const Imap = require('imap');

const imap =  new Imap({

   user: 'email',

   password: 'password',

   host: 'imap.gmail.com',

   port: 993,

  tls: true,

  tlsOptions: {

    rejectUnauthorized: false,

  },

 });

 

module.exports = imap;

```

the constants at the beginning of the imap-archiver control the box  to eas, the dates and the output:

```javascript

const outputDir = path.resolve('./target/mail');

// const BOX = 'INBOX';

const BOX = 'Éléments envoyés';

//const BOX = 'Calendrier';

const START_DATE = Date.parse('2015-07-01');

const END_DATE = Date.parse('2016-12-31');

```

warning: for some reason calendar items cannot be exported

```

./imap-archiver.js

```

then prune empty directories and duplicates

```

find . -empty -type d -delete

fdupes -r -d -N .

```

 

then we can run the cleaning script:

warning : it can fail because of the stack size for mails with lots of recipients. the node command line parameter  `--stack-size=16000` can help.

```

eml-reader  

```

some options at the top of the file:

const FIX_WRONG_ENCODING = true; // transform utf-16 back to utf-8 (wrong encoding declared)

const LOG = true; // console log

then we can delete everything wth the imap-deleter