gromox\-oxm2mt \(em Utility for analysis of Outlook .msg files

\fBgromox\-oxm2mt\fP [\fB\-pt\fP] \fIinput.msg\fP

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.

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Show properties in detail (enhances \fB\-t\fP).

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Show a diagnostic tree view of the source data as it is being read.

Import of a message to drafts:

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

.IP \(bu 4

MS-CFB: Compound File Binary Format (CFBF)

.IP \(bu 4

MS-OXMSG: Outlook Item (.msg) File Format

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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".

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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].

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