The parser captures email accounts complete with their attachments. The
XML file is the preserved email account, its messages, and all
attachments less than 25 Kb in size.

According to the pre-set configuration, attachments larger than
25Kb are exported into the prepared account's directory tree and
placed in the folder corresponding to the "owning" message. The
location of any exported attachment is encoded in the preserved
account XML file within its owning message.

Exported attachments have been migrated to XML using base64
encoding in most cases, for ease of access at a later time. This also
facilitates giving the exported attachments filenames that are unique
to that attachment throughout the preserved account file. In a
sizeable email account, it is very likely that several messages have
different attachments that are named the same (e.g., policy.doc.) The
parser assigns unique files names to all exported attachments using
the convention "attachxxxxxxxxx.xml"

Let us know if you have additional questions.

Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Electronic Records Division

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: Collaborative Electronic Records Project's Email
Preservation Parser Now Available

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Schmitz Fuhrig, Lynda
<[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> The three-year Collaborative Electronic Records Project (CERP) of the
> Smithsonian Institution Archives and the Rockefeller Archive Center
> concluded in December 2008. Among the project outcomes, the CERP Email
> Parser was produced and we are pleased to offer it to the archival and
> related communities as an open source software tool for the
preservation
> of email accounts. The Email Parser
> (http://siarchives.si.edu/cerp/parserdownload.htm) migrates an email
> account and its messages into a single XML file using the Email
Account
> XML Schema developed in collaboration with the North Carolina State
> Archives and the EMCAP project.
>
>

one question comes to mind. How does this parser handle attachment(s) ?


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