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#123 Save Outlook Attachments
I'm using DocFetcher to get access to my Outlook .PST files after migrating from Windows to Mac OSX.
It would be great if DocFetcher supported saving attachments from Outlook messages that it found in a PST. Since messages are already displayed in fulltext, that is the only missing piece to providing full access to those archives.
See also the related Forum post:
https://sourceforge.net/p/docfetcher/discussion/702424/thread/1dd86825/?limit=25#fc1c
DocFetcher already accesses attachments internally for indexing them, so only a UI is missing for saving them. Also refer to related code in java-libpst line 325ff:
https://github.com/rjohnsondev/java-libpst/blob/0d602ee782e21f6e18b1d3ed34ddb5245c3b8ac0/src/main/java/example/TestGui.java
See my responses in the forum thread...
One open question here is, how to even visualize that a message does have attachments. As of 1.1.18, the preview desplays messages when a search hit is found in an attachment. But users don't notice that the hit is in the attachment, and not the message itself. It's also not clear whether hits in attachments get lower search ranks than hits in an actual message.
It would be nice if the top pane of the previewer would have a field "Attachments: a.doc b.txt" where one can right-click an attachment to save it, and the attachent is marked yellow if it has a search hit.
It would be easier to just add a toolbar button in the preview pane for saving the attachments, if there are any. Whether the button is enabled or disabled would indicate that attachments are present or absent.