From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2006-12-19T12:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing Outlook Express .dbx mail files from ruby

Bill Kelly wrote:
> All I'm really trying to do is export emails from Outlook Express
> to a plain text file.
> 
> I wondered if there might be some Windows API that I could call
> from ruby to accomplish this?

First, IIRC you can easily export emails to plain text files using
Outlook Express itself. You can drag a emails from OE to a windows
explorer window to export as .eml files.

If you want to do something else and want to automate it, here are some
resources that could help:

Info on the file format and related C++ source code:
http://oedbx.aroh.de/

PHP implementation of a reader class:
http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-3479.html

Cheers,
Dave