Splitting PST Files (Microsoft Exchange format) with DOM splitter

[CorinneKnoe]

I am trying to split PST files (contain entire mailboxes) into its elements: emails, attachments, contacts, calendar entries, etc.

Norconex is able to read the PST file, however it returns the entire thing in one file. I tried to use DOM splitter to split the PST into components. So far, no success.

<importer>

        <preParseHandlers>
        <splitter class="com.norconex.importer.handler.splitter.impl.DOMSplitter"
                        selector=".pst"
                        sourceCharset="UTF-8">
        </splitter>
        </preParseHandlers>

        <postParseHandlers>
          <tagger class="${tagger}.ReplaceTagger">
            <replace fromField="samplefield" regex="true">
              <fromValue>ping</fromValue><toValue>pongdidididponglalalala</toValue>
            </replace>
            <replace fromField="Subject" regex="true">
                <fromValue>Sample to crawl</fromValue><toValue>Sample crawled</toValue>
            </replace>            
          </tagger>
        </postParseHandlers>
</importer>

Is Norconex able to split PST files? Many thanks, Corinne

[essiembre]

Hello Corinne,

Yes, the Norconex Importer can split PST files. Have a look at GenericDocumentParserFactory. You will find many options for controlling exactly what/how you want the split embedded documents. In its most open form (split every embedded documents), it would look like this:

<importer>
  <documentParserFactory class="com.norconex.importer.parser.GenericDocumentParserFactory">
    <embedded>
      <splitContentTypes>.*</splitContentTypes>
    </embedded>
  </documentParserFactory>
</importer>

You probably want to configure it so it only splits certain content types.

[CorinneKnoe]

Thank you very much for your help and the code example. Will give this a try!