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Old 06-23-2014
Sort outlook dump of emails based on date
Greetings! I have an export of an outlook database in text format. The emails however did not export by date and are all scattered in a massive file. I am hoping somebody out there could help me with a command that could sort the file based on the date.


Here is the format of the email contents:

From: SENDER
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 5:30 PM
To: RECIPIENT
Subject: SUBJECT

contents....


From: SENDER
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 12:38 PM
To: RECIPIENT
Subject: SUBJECT

contents....



-----------------

Thank you in advance for any help!

-TSmilie
# 2  
Old 06-23-2014
You might consider this free tool that exports to CSV format.

Redirecting to http://www.codetwo.com/freeware/outlook-export/

If not you may have to write an awk script that turns the text file into a CSV delimited/record oriented. Then you could sort by date.
# 3  
Old 06-23-2014
I'm guessing that if an email was a reply/forward to another email that "contents...." would also contain "Sent: <datestring>".

Is there any easy way to identify where the contents starts and ends for each email in this text file?
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