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annotate ChangeLog @ 52:034641c26ab9
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| author | carl |
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| date | Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:03:30 -0800 |
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| 52 | 1 LibPST 0.6.6 (2008-01-xx) |
| 2 =============================== | |
| 3 | |
| 4 * More code cleanup, removing unnecessary null terminations on | |
| 5 binary buffers. All pst file reads now go thru one function. | |
| 6 Logging all pst reads to detect cases where we read the same data | |
| 7 multiple times - discovers node sizes are actually 512 bytes. | |
| 8 | |
| 51 | 9 LibPST 0.6.5 (2008-01-22) |
| 10 =============================== | |
| 11 | |
| 12 * More code cleanup, removing obsolete code. All the boolean flags | |
| 13 of type 0xb have length 4, so these are all 32 bits in the file. | |
| 14 Libpst treats them all as 16 bits, but at least we are consistent. | |
| 15 * More fields decoded - for example, see | |
| 16 <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa454925.aspx> | |
| 17 We should be able to use that data for much more complete decoding. | |
| 18 * Move the rpm group to Applications/Productivity consistent with | |
| 19 Evolution. | |
| 20 | |
| 49 | 21 LibPST 0.6.4 (2008-01-19) |
| 48 | 22 =============================== |
| 23 | |
| 24 * More fixes for Outlook 2003 64 bit parsing. We observed cases of | |
| 25 compressed RTF bodies (type 0x1009) with zero length. | |
| 49 | 26 * Document type 0x0101 descriptor blocks and process them. |
| 48 | 27 * Fix large file support - we need to include config.h before any |
| 28 standard headers. | |
| 50 | 29 * Merge following changes from svn snapshot from Alioth: |
| 30 * Add new fields to appointment for recurring events | |
| 31 (SourceForge #304198) | |
| 32 * Map IPM.Task items to PST_TYPE_TASK. | |
| 33 * Applied patch to remove compiler warnings, thanks! | |
| 34 (SourceForge #304314) | |
| 35 * Fix crash with unknown reference type | |
| 36 * Fix more memory issues detected by valgrind | |
| 37 * lspst - add usage mesage and option parsing using getopt | |
| 38 (SourceForge #304199) | |
| 39 * Fix crash caused by invalid free calls | |
| 40 * Fix crash when email subject is empty | |
| 41 * Fix memory and information leak in hex debug dump | |
| 48 | 42 |
| 47 | 43 LibPST 0.6.3 (2008-01-13) |
| 44 =============================== | |
| 45 | |
| 46 * More type consistency issues found by splint. | |
| 47 | |
| 46 | 48 LibPST 0.6.2 (2008-01-12) |
| 49 =============================== | |
| 50 | |
| 51 * More fixes for Outlook 2003 64 bit parsing. | |
| 52 * All buffer sizes changed to size_t, all file offsets changed to off_t, | |
| 53 all function names start with pst_, many other type consistency issues | |
| 54 found by splint. Many changes to #llx in debug printing for 64 bit items. | |
| 47 | 55 All id values are now uint64_t. |
| 46 | 56 |
| 43 | 57 LibPST 0.6.1 (2008-01-06) |
| 58 =============================== | |
| 59 | |
| 60 * Outlook 2003 64 bit parsing. Some documentation from Alexander Grau | |
| 61 <alexandergrau@gmx.de> and patches from Sean Loaring <sloaring@tec-man.com>. | |
| 62 * fix from Antonio Palama <palama@inwind.it> for email items | |
| 63 that happen to have item->contact non null, and were being processed | |
| 64 as contacts. | |
| 65 * Add large file support so we can read .pst files larger than 2gb. | |
| 66 * Change lspst to be similar to readpst, properly using recursion to walk | |
| 67 the tree, and testing item types. Add a man page for lspst. | |
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72 * security fix from Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> for buffer |
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73 overruns in liv-zemple decoding for corrupted or malicious pst files. |
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| 40 | 75 LibPST 0.5.11 (2007-08-24) |
| 76 =============================== | |
| 77 | |
| 78 * fix from Stevens Miller <smiller@novadatalabs.com> | |
| 79 for unitialized variable. | |
| 80 | |
| 39 | 81 LibPST 0.5.10 (2007-08-20) |
| 82 =============================== | |
| 83 | |
| 84 * fix yet more valgrind errors - finally have a clean memory check. | |
| 85 * restructure readpst.c for proper recursive tree walk. | |
| 86 * buffer overrun test was backwards, introduced at 0.5.6 | |
| 87 * fix broken email attachments, introduced at 0.5.6 | |
| 88 | |
| 38 | 89 LibPST 0.5.9 (2007-08-12) |
| 90 =============================== | |
| 91 | |
| 92 * fix more valgrind errors. | |
| 93 | |
| 37 | 94 LibPST 0.5.8 (2007-08-10) |
| 95 =============================== | |
| 96 | |
| 97 * fix more valgrind errors. lzfu_decompress needs to return the | |
| 98 actual buffer size, since the lz header overestimates the size. | |
| 99 This caused base64_encode to encode undefined bytes into the | |
| 100 email attachment. | |
| 101 | |
| 36 | 102 LibPST 0.5.7 (2007-08-09) |
| 103 =============================== | |
| 104 | |
| 105 * fix valgrind errors, using uninitialized data. | |
| 106 * improve debug logging and readpstlog for indented listings. | |
| 107 * cleanup documentation. | |
| 108 | |
| 35 | 109 LibPST 0.5.6 (2007-07-15) |
| 110 =============================== | |
| 111 | |
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113 tree. We were mixing signed/unsigned types in comparisons. |
| 35 | 114 * More progress decoding the basic structure 7c blocks. Many |
| 115 four byte values may be ID2 indices with data outside the buffer. | |
| 116 * Start using doxygen to generate internal documentation. | |
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| 31 | 118 LibPST 0.5.5 (2007-07-10) |
| 119 =============================== | |
| 120 | |
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121 * merge the following changes from Joe Nahmias version: |
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122 * Lots of memory fixes. Thanks to Nigel Horne for his assistance |
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123 tracking these down! |
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124 * Fixed creation of vCards from contacts, thanks to Nigel Horne for |
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125 his help with this! |
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126 * fix for MIME multipart/alternative attachments. |
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127 * added -c options to readpst manpage. |
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128 * use 8.3 attachment filename if long filename isn't available. |
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129 * new -b option to skip rtf-body.rtf attachments. |
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130 * fix format of From header lines in mbox files. |
| 43 | 131 * Add more appointment fields, thanks to Chris Halls for tracking |
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132 them down! |
| 31 | 133 |
| 134 | |
| 30 | 135 LibPST 0.5.4 (2006-02-25) |
| 136 =============================== | |
| 137 | |
| 138 * patches from Arne, adding MH mode, remove leading zeros | |
| 139 from the generated numbered filenames starting with one | |
| 140 rather than zero. Miscellaneous code cleanup. | |
| 141 | |
| 142 * document the "7c" descriptor block format. | |
| 143 | |
| 24 | 144 LibPST 0.5.3 (2006-02-20) |
| 16 | 145 =============================== |
| 146 | |
| 24 | 147 * switch to gnu autoconf/automake. This breaks the MS VC++ projects |
| 148 since the source code is now in the src subdirectory. | |
| 149 | |
| 16 | 150 * documentation switched to xml, building man pages and html |
| 151 from the master xml copy. | |
| 152 | |
| 24 | 153 * include rpm .spec file for building src and binary rpms. |
| 154 | |
| 16 | 155 |
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156 LibPST 0.5.2 (2006-02-18) |
| 11 | 157 =============================== |
| 158 | |
| 159 * Added pst2ldif to convert the contacts to ldif format for import | |
| 160 into ldap databases. | |
| 161 | |
| 162 * Major changes to libpst.c to properly use the node depth values | |
| 163 from the b-tree nodes. We also use the item count values in the nodes | |
| 164 rather than trying to guess how many items are active. | |
| 165 | |
| 166 * Cleanup whitespace - using tabs for every four columns. | |
| 167 | |
| 168 | |
| 3 | 169 LibPST 0.5.1 (17 November 2004) |
| 170 =============================== | |
| 171 | |
| 172 Well, alot has happened since the last release of libpst. | |
| 173 | |
| 174 Release / Management: | |
| 175 | |
| 11 | 176 * The project has forked! The new maintainer is Joseph Nahmias. |
| 177 * We have changed hosting sites, thanks to sourceforge for hosting | |
| 178 to this point. From this point forward we will be using | |
| 179 alioth.debian.org. | |
| 180 * The project is now using SubVersioN for source control. You can | |
| 181 get the latest code by running: | |
| 182 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/libpst/trunk . | |
| 183 * See | |
| 184 <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libpst-devel/2004-November/000000.html> | |
| 185 for more information. | |
| 3 | 186 |
| 187 Code Changes: | |
| 188 | |
| 11 | 189 * Added lspst program to list items in a PST. Still incomplete. |
| 190 * Added vim folding markers to readpst.c | |
| 191 * avoid the pseudo-prologue that MS prepends to the email headers | |
| 192 * fix build on msvc, since it doesn't have sys/param.h | |
| 193 * Re-vamped Makefile: | |
| 194 * Only define CFLAGS in Makefileif missing | |
| 195 * fixed {un,}install targets in Makefile | |
| 196 * Fixed up build process in Makefile | |
| 197 * Added mozilla conversion script from David Binard | |
| 198 * Fixed bogus creation of readpst.log on every invocation | |
| 199 * escaped dashes and apostrophe in manpages | |
| 200 * Updated TODO | |
| 201 * added manpages from debian pkg | |
| 202 * fix escaped-string length count to consider '\n', | |
| 203 thanks to Paul Bakker <bakker@fox-it.com>. | |
| 204 * ensure there's a blank line between header and body | |
| 205 patch from <johnh@aproposretail.com> (SourceForge #890745). | |
| 206 * Apply accumulated endian-related patches | |
| 207 * Removed unused files, upstream's debian/ dir | |
| 3 | 208 |
| 209 -- Joe Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> | |
| 210 | |
| 211 LibPST v0.5 | |
| 212 =========== | |
| 213 | |
| 214 It is with GREAT relief that I bring you version 0.5 of the LibPST tools! | |
| 215 | |
| 216 Through great difficulties, this tool has survived and expanded to become even | |
| 217 better. | |
| 218 | |
| 219 The changes are as follows: | |
| 220 * RTF support. We can now decompress RTF bodies in emails, and are saved as attachments | |
| 221 * Better support in reading the indexes. Fixed many bugs with them | |
| 222 * Improved reliability. "Now we are getting somewhere!" | |
| 223 * Improved compiling. Hopefully we won't be hitting too many compile errors now. | |
| 224 * vCard handling. Contacts are now exported as vCard entries. | |
| 225 * vEvent handling. Support has begun on exporting Calendar entries as events | |
| 226 * Support for Journal entries has also begun | |
| 227 | |
| 228 If you have any problems with this release, don't hesitate to contact me. | |
| 229 | |
| 230 These changes come to you, as always, free under the GPL license!! What a wonderful | |
| 231 thing it is. It does mean that you can write your own program off of this library | |
| 232 and distribute it also for free. However, anyone with commercial interests for | |
| 233 developing applications they will be charging for are encouraged to get in touch | |
| 234 with me, as I am sure we can come to some arrangement. | |
| 235 | |
| 236 Dave Smith | |
| 237 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 238 | |
| 239 LibPST v0.4.3 | |
| 240 ============= | |
| 241 | |
| 242 Bug fix release. No extra functionality | |
| 243 | |
| 244 Dave Smith | |
| 245 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 246 | |
| 247 LibPST v0.4.2 | |
| 248 ============= | |
| 249 | |
| 250 The debug system has had an overhaul. The debug messages are no longer | |
| 251 printed to the screen when they are enabled. They are dumped to a | |
| 252 binary file. There is another utility called "readlog" that I have | |
| 253 written to handle these log files. It should make it easier to | |
| 254 selectively view bits of a log file. It also shows the position that | |
| 255 the log message was printed from. | |
| 256 | |
| 257 There is a new switch in readpst. It is -d. It enables the user to | |
| 258 specify the log file which the binary log is written to. If the switch | |
| 259 isn't used, the default file of "readpst.log" is used. | |
| 260 | |
| 261 The code is now Visual C++ compatible. It has compiled on Visual C++ | |
| 262 .net Standard edition, and produces the readpst.exe file. Use the project | |
| 263 file included in this distribution. | |
| 264 | |
| 265 There have been minor improvements elsewhere too. | |
| 266 | |
| 267 | |
| 268 LibPST v0.4.1 | |
| 269 ============= | |
| 270 | |
| 271 Fixed a couple more bugs. Is it me or do bugs just insert themselves | |
| 272 in random, hard to find places! | |
| 273 | |
| 274 Cured a few problems with regard to emails with multiple embeded | |
| 275 items. They are not fully re-created using Mime-types, but are | |
| 276 accessible with the -S switch (which saves everything as seperate | |
| 277 items) | |
| 278 | |
| 279 Fixed a problem reading the first index. Back sliders are now | |
| 280 detected. (ie when the value following the current one is smaller, not | |
| 281 bigger!) | |
| 282 | |
| 283 Added some error messages when we try and read outside of the PST | |
| 284 file, this was causing a few problems before, cause the return value | |
| 285 wasn't always checked, so it was possible to be reading random data, | |
| 286 and trying to make sense of it! | |
| 287 | |
| 288 Anyway, if you find any problems, don't hesitate to mail me | |
| 289 | |
| 290 Dave Smith | |
| 291 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 292 | |
| 293 LibPST v0.4 | |
| 294 =========== | |
| 295 | |
| 296 Fixed a nasty bug that occasionally corrupted attachments. Another bug | |
| 297 with regard to reading of indexes (also occasional). | |
| 298 | |
| 299 Another output method has been added which is called "Seperate". It is | |
| 300 activated with the -S switch. It operates in the following manor: | |
| 301 | |
| 302 |--Inbox-->000000 | |
| 11 | 303 | 000001 |
| 304 | 000002 | |
| 3 | 305 |--Sentmail-->0000000 |
| 11 | 306 | 0000001 |
| 307 | 0000002 | |
| 3 | 308 |
| 309 All the emails are stored in seperate files counting from 0 upwards, | |
| 310 in a folder named as the PST folder. | |
| 311 | |
| 312 When an email has an attachment, it is saved as a seperate file. The | |
| 313 filename for the attachment is made up of 2 parts, the first is the | |
| 314 email number to which it belongs, the second is its filename. | |
| 315 | |
| 316 The should now be runnable on big-endian machines, if the define.h | |
| 317 file is first modified. The #define LITTLE_ENDIAN must be commented | |
| 318 out, and the #define BIG_ENDIAN must be uncommented. | |
| 319 | |
| 320 More verbose error messages have been added. Apparently people got | |
| 321 confused when the program stopped for no visible reason. This has now | |
| 322 been resolved. | |
| 323 | |
| 324 Thanks for the continued support of all people involved. | |
| 325 | |
| 326 Dave Smith | |
| 327 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 328 | |
| 329 Libpst v0.3.4 | |
| 330 ============= | |
| 331 | |
| 332 Several more fixes. An Infinite loop and incorrect interpreting of | |
| 333 item index attributes. Work has started on making the code executable | |
| 334 on big endian CPUs. At present it should work with Linux on these | |
| 335 CPUs, but I would appreciate it if you could provide feedback with | |
| 336 regard to it's performance. I am also working with some other people | |
| 337 at make it operate on Solaris. | |
| 338 | |
| 339 A whole load more items are now recognized by the Item records. With | |
| 340 more items in Emails and Folders. I haven't got to the Contacts yet. | |
| 341 | |
| 342 Anyway, this is what I would call a minor feature enhancment and | |
| 343 bugfix release. | |
| 344 | |
| 345 Dave Smith | |
| 346 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 347 | |
| 348 LibPST v0.3.3 | |
| 349 ============= | |
| 350 | |
| 351 Fixed several items. Mainly memory leaks. Loads of them! oops.. | |
| 352 | |
| 353 I have added a new program, mainly of debugging, which when passed | |
| 11 | 354 an ID value and a pst file, will extract and decrypt that ID from |
| 3 | 355 the pst file. I don't see it being a huge attraction, or of much use |
| 356 to most people, but it is another example of writing an application | |
| 357 to use the libpst interface. | |
| 358 | |
| 359 Another fix was in the reading of the item index. This has hopefully | |
| 360 now been corrected. The result of this bug was that not all the emails | |
| 361 in a folder were converted. Hopefully you should have more luck now. | |
| 362 | |
| 363 Dave Smith | |
| 364 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 365 | |
| 366 LibPST v0.3.2 | |
| 367 ============= | |
| 368 | |
| 369 Quick bugfix release. There was a bug in the decryption of the basic | |
| 370 encryption that outlook uses. One byte, 0x6c, was incorrectly decrypted | |
| 371 to 0x6c instead of 0xcd. This release fixes this bug. Sorry... | |
| 372 | |
| 373 | |
| 374 LibPST v0.3.1 | |
| 375 ============= | |
| 376 | |
| 377 Minor improvements. Fixed bug when linking multiple blocks together, | |
| 378 so now the linking blocks are not "encrypted" when trying to read | |
| 379 them. | |
| 380 | |
| 381 | |
| 382 LibPST v0.3 | |
| 383 =========== | |
| 384 | |
| 385 A lot of bug fixing has been done for this release. Testing has been | |
| 386 done on the creation of the files by readpst. Better handling of | |
| 387 large binaries being extracted from the PST file has been implemented. | |
| 388 | |
| 389 Quite a few reports have come in about not being able to compile on | |
| 390 Darwin. This could be down to using macros with variable parameter | |
| 391 lists. This has now been changed to use C functions with variable | |
| 392 parameters. I hope this fixes a lot of problems. | |
| 393 | |
| 394 Added support for recreating the folder structure into normal | |
| 395 directories. For Instance: | |
| 396 | |
| 397 Personal Folders | |
| 398 |-Inbox | |
| 399 | |-Jokes | |
| 400 | |-Meetings | |
| 401 |-Send Items | |
| 402 | |
| 403 each folder containing an mbox file with the correct emails for that | |
| 404 folder. | |
| 405 | |
| 406 Dave Smith | |
| 407 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 408 | |
| 409 | |
| 410 LibPST v0.3 beta1 | |
| 411 ================= | |
| 412 | |
| 413 Again, a shed load of enhancements. More work has been done on the | |
| 414 mime creation. A bug has been fixed that was letting part of the | |
| 11 | 415 attachments that were created disappear. |
| 3 | 416 |
| 417 A major enhancement is that "compressible encryption" support has been | |
| 418 added. This was an incredibly simple method to use. It is basically a | |
| 419 ceasar cipher. It has been noted by several users already that the PST | |
| 420 password that Outlook uses, serves *no purpose*. It is not used to | |
| 421 encrypt the PST, it is mearly stored there. This means that the | |
| 422 readpst application is able to convert PST files without knowing the | |
| 423 password. Microsoft have some explaning to do! | |
| 424 | |
| 425 Output files are now not overwritten if they already exist. This means | |
| 426 that if you have two folders in your PST file named "fred", the first | |
| 427 one encountered will be named "fred" and the second one will be named | |
| 428 "fred00000001". As you can see, there is enough room there for many | |
| 429 duplicate names! | |
| 430 | |
| 431 Output filenames are now restricted. Any "/" or "\" characters in the | |
| 432 name are replaced with "_". If you find that there are any other | |
| 433 characters that need to be changed, could you please make me aware! | |
| 434 | |
| 435 Thanks to Berry Wizard for help with supporting the encryption. | |
| 436 | |
| 437 Thanks to Auke Kok, Carolus Walraven and Yogesh Kumar Guatam for providing debugging | |
| 438 information and testing. | |
| 439 | |
| 440 Dave Smith | |
| 441 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 442 | |
| 443 | |
| 444 LibPST v0.2 beta1 | |
| 445 ================= | |
| 446 | |
| 447 Hello once more... | |
| 448 | |
| 449 Attachments are now re-created in mime format. The method is very | |
| 450 crude and could be prone to over generalisation. Please test this | |
| 451 version, and if attachments are not recreated correctly, please send | |
| 452 me the email (complete message source) of the original and | |
| 453 converted. Cheers. | |
| 454 | |
| 455 I hope this will work for everyone who uses this program, but reality | |
| 456 can be very different! | |
| 457 | |
| 458 Let us see how it goes... | |
| 459 | |
| 460 Dave Smith | |
| 461 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 462 | |
| 463 LibPST v0.2 alpha1 | |
| 464 =========== | |
| 465 | |
| 466 Hello! | |
| 467 | |
| 468 Some improvements. The internal code has been changed so that | |
| 469 attachments are now processed and loaded into the structures. The | |
| 470 readpst program is not finished yet. It needs to convert these binary | |
| 471 structs into mime data. At present it just saves them to the current | |
| 472 directory, overwriting any previous files with the attachment name. | |
| 473 | |
| 11 | 474 Improvements over previous version: |
| 3 | 475 * KMail output is supported - if the "-k" flag is specified, all the |
| 476 directory hierarchy is created using the KMail standard | |
| 477 * Lots of bugs and memory leaks fixed | |
| 478 | |
| 479 | |
| 480 Usage: | |
| 481 | |
| 482 ReadPST v0.2alpha1 implementing LibPST v0.2alpha1 | |
| 483 Usage: ./readpst [OPTIONS] {PST FILENAME} | |
| 484 OPTIONS: | |
| 485 -h - Help. This screen | |
| 486 -k - KMail. Output in kmail format | |
| 487 -o - Output Dir. Directory to write files to. CWD is changed *after* opening pst file | |
| 488 -V - Version. Display program version | |
| 489 | |
| 490 If you want to view lots of debug output, modify a line in "define.h" | |
| 491 from "//#define DEBUG_ALL" to "#define DEBUG_ALL". It would then be | |
| 492 advisable to pipe all output to a log file: | |
| 493 | |
| 494 ./readpst -o out pst_file &> logfile | |
| 495 | |
| 496 Dave Smith | |
| 497 | |
| 498 LibPST v0.1 | |
| 499 =========== | |
| 500 | |
| 501 Hi Folks! | |
| 502 | |
| 503 This has been a long, hard slog, but I now feel that I have got | |
| 504 somewhere useful. The included program "main" is able to read an | |
| 505 Outlook PST file and dump the emails into mbox files, separating each | |
| 506 folder into a different mbox file. All the mbox files are stored in | |
| 507 the current directory and no attempt is yet made to organise these | |
| 508 files into a directory hierarchy. This would not be too difficult to | |
| 509 achieve though. | |
| 510 | |
| 511 Email attachments are not yet handled, neither are Contacts. | |
| 512 | |
| 513 There is no pretty interface yet, but you can convert a PST file in | |
| 514 the following manner | |
| 515 | |
| 516 ./main {path to PST file} | |
| 517 | |
| 518 This is very much a work in progress, but I thought I should release | |
| 519 this code so that people can lose their conception that outlook files | |
| 520 will never be converted to Linux. | |
| 521 | |
| 522 I am intending that the code I am writing will be developed into | |
| 523 greater applications to provide USEFUL tools for accessing and | |
| 524 converting PST files into a variety of formats. | |
| 525 | |
| 526 One point I feel I should make is that Outlook, by default, creates | |
| 527 "Compressible Encryption" PST files. I have not, as yet, attempted to | |
| 528 write any decryption routines, so you will not be able to convert | |
| 529 these files. However, if you create a new PST file and choose not to | |
| 530 make an encrypted one, you can copy all your emails into this new one | |
| 531 and then convert the unencrypted one. | |
| 532 | |
| 533 I hope you enjoy, | |
| 534 | |
| 535 Dave Smith | |
| 536 | |
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