Processing .EML files with Select-String and SetCreationTime()

re: Processing .EML files with Select-String and SetCreationTime()

Jeff Burgess — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:43:52 GMT

Came upon this when searching for a way to fix Courier email dates imported to Kerio mailserver. The following small modification worked fine. The header was slightly different to what was expected, was picking up <EST> which caused the script to fail. So just stop the Kerio mail server run the scripts in each #msgs directory you need to fix and then delete the associated index.fld in the parent directory. Restart Kerio and you are done. Many thanks Jeffrey Snover for your script, made life a hell of a lot easier.

//to set modified date

foreach ($record in Select-String ^Delivery-date: *.eml) {

[System.IO.File]::SetLastWriteTime($Record.Path, [datetime]($record.line.substring(15)))

}

//to set create date

foreach ($record in Select-String ^Delivery-date: *.eml) {

[System.IO.File]::SetCreationTime($Record.Path, [datetime]($record.line.substring(15)))

}

re: Processing .EML files with Select-String and SetCreationTime()

Keith Hill — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:42:55 GMT

The next drop of PowerShell Community Extensions (http://www.codeplex.com/powershellcx) will have a Set-FileTime cmdlet. The current drop has a Set-FileDate cmdlet that is pretty much the same but I decided the cmdlet name should be Set-FileTime.

Let's do a deep drill into Select-String

Windows PowerShell — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:25:56 GMT

In my blog post Processing .EML files using Select-String and SetCreationTIme ( ) ( http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/11/23/processing-eml-files-with-select-string-and-setcreationtime.aspx