Readpst

[Anthony Cocciolo]

Hello all,

I noticed that  Archivematica's default formats policy converts from PST to MBOX but notice that the commands and rules for PST to MBOX are not setup by default.  I was wondering if anyone had any luck creating commands to convert from PST to MBOX? 

I have used this command:

Command: readpst -r "%inputFile%" -o "%outputDirectory%"

Ouput location: %outputDirectory%

The only problem is that Archivematica seems to have trouble with the multiple folders/files that get generated from this command.

Readpst is otherwise working properly.

Any suggestions would be appreciated,
Anthony
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[sam...@willamette.edu]

Hi Anthony - Did you ever get this resolved?  We've just started receiving some .pst files and are wondering if we will need to convert them to mbox before ingesting (as you noted, there wasn't a rule set up by default to transform them.)

Also, does anyone have a recommendation for a viewer for mbox files?  We were trying Thunderbird, but it requires a valid email account to get set up (as far as we can tell.)   Any recommendations much appreciated. 

[sam...@willamette.edu]

I've been playing around more with ingesting PST files.   I set up a normalization rule and command as Anthony describes below, and it appears to work perfectly until the verification step.   I.e. when looking at the normalization report, it shows the extracted mbox folders, but then fails the verification step with "output file does not exist".  I tried setting the Verification Command to None, but it still fails.     I also tried an Extraction rule, on the off chance that it would then expect multiple rather than a single file, but still no luck.        

Any ideas how to make this conversion from PST to MBOX work successfully on ingest?  For now I'm just going to use readpst at the command line to convert to mbox before ingesting....

[Anthony Cocciolo]

Hi Samato,

This was the command that I ended up using for normalizing PST Files:

mkdir -p "%outputDirectory%%fileName%-mbox" && readpst -wr "%inputFile%" -o "%outputDirectory%%fileName%-mbox/" && zip -rm "%outputDirectory%%prefix%%fileName%%postfix%.zip" "%outputDirectory%%fileName%-mbox"

Since the readpst command doesn't create a single MBOX file but multiple files/directories (mirroring the directories in the PST), then all those files and directories are put into a single ZIP file.

For reading the output, I was using Windows MBOX Viewer - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbox-viewer/ .

All the best,

Anthony

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