pst.rb

Description

JRuby gem for working with Outlook PST files. Syntactic sugar over java-libpst

Example

pstfile = Pff::PSTFile.new("foo.pst")

# iterate over all (nested) folders
folders = pstfile.root.sub_folders.inject({}){|acc,f|
  acc[f.name] = f
  acc
}

folder = folders["Inbox"] 
email = folder.children.first

pp email.subject        # -> "Re: obama's new debt plan"
pp email.num_recipients # -> 2

# handy human ids and hash strings
pp email.human_id "nates-mails:/path/to/foo.pst:/Top of Personal Folders/Inbox:Fri Aug 03 01:02:00 PDT 2011:<foo@bar.com>:Re: obama's new debt plan")
pp email.hash_string    # -> "f161dd2a45952784c440bd5879684ae89b8b0523"

recipient = email.recipients.first
pp recipient.name       # -> "Nate Murray"
pp recipient.email      # -> "nate@natemurray.com

References

The heavy lifting is done by Richard Johnson’s java-libpst. Bless him for working out the protocol details so I didn’t have to.

• http://code.google.com/p/java-libpst/
• http://www.rjohnson.id.au/wordpress/2010/01/26/java-libpst-pst2gmail/

Author

Nate Murray nate@natemurray.com http://www.xcombinator.com