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properly ignore (second block zero) errors. that will just drop some unknown attachments, but the rest of the data is still found
| author | carl |
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| date | Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:56:00 -0800 |
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properly ignore (second block zero) errors. that will just drop some unknown attachments, but the rest of the data is still found
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1 LibPST 0.5.2 (2006-02-18) |
| 11 | 2 =============================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 * Added pst2ldif to convert the contacts to ldif format for import | |
| 5 into ldap databases. | |
| 6 | |
| 7 * Major changes to libpst.c to properly use the node depth values | |
| 8 from the b-tree nodes. We also use the item count values in the nodes | |
| 9 rather than trying to guess how many items are active. | |
| 10 | |
| 11 * Cleanup whitespace - using tabs for every four columns. | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | |
| 3 | 14 LibPST 0.5.1 (17 November 2004) |
| 15 =============================== | |
| 16 | |
| 17 Well, alot has happened since the last release of libpst. | |
| 18 | |
| 19 Release / Management: | |
| 20 | |
| 11 | 21 * The project has forked! The new maintainer is Joseph Nahmias. |
| 22 * We have changed hosting sites, thanks to sourceforge for hosting | |
| 23 to this point. From this point forward we will be using | |
| 24 alioth.debian.org. | |
| 25 * The project is now using SubVersioN for source control. You can | |
| 26 get the latest code by running: | |
| 27 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/libpst/trunk . | |
| 28 * See | |
| 29 <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libpst-devel/2004-November/000000.html> | |
| 30 for more information. | |
| 3 | 31 |
| 32 Code Changes: | |
| 33 | |
| 11 | 34 * Added lspst program to list items in a PST. Still incomplete. |
| 35 * Added vim folding markers to readpst.c | |
| 36 * avoid the pseudo-prologue that MS prepends to the email headers | |
| 37 * fix build on msvc, since it doesn't have sys/param.h | |
| 38 * Re-vamped Makefile: | |
| 39 * Only define CFLAGS in Makefileif missing | |
| 40 * fixed {un,}install targets in Makefile | |
| 41 * Fixed up build process in Makefile | |
| 42 * Added mozilla conversion script from David Binard | |
| 43 * Fixed bogus creation of readpst.log on every invocation | |
| 44 * escaped dashes and apostrophe in manpages | |
| 45 * Updated TODO | |
| 46 * added manpages from debian pkg | |
| 47 * fix escaped-string length count to consider '\n', | |
| 48 thanks to Paul Bakker <bakker@fox-it.com>. | |
| 49 * ensure there's a blank line between header and body | |
| 50 patch from <johnh@aproposretail.com> (SourceForge #890745). | |
| 51 * Apply accumulated endian-related patches | |
| 52 * Removed unused files, upstream's debian/ dir | |
| 3 | 53 |
| 54 -- Joe Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> | |
| 55 | |
| 56 LibPST v0.5 | |
| 57 =========== | |
| 58 | |
| 59 It is with GREAT relief that I bring you version 0.5 of the LibPST tools! | |
| 60 | |
| 61 Through great difficulties, this tool has survived and expanded to become even | |
| 62 better. | |
| 63 | |
| 64 The changes are as follows: | |
| 65 * RTF support. We can now decompress RTF bodies in emails, and are saved as attachments | |
| 66 * Better support in reading the indexes. Fixed many bugs with them | |
| 67 * Improved reliability. "Now we are getting somewhere!" | |
| 68 * Improved compiling. Hopefully we won't be hitting too many compile errors now. | |
| 69 * vCard handling. Contacts are now exported as vCard entries. | |
| 70 * vEvent handling. Support has begun on exporting Calendar entries as events | |
| 71 * Support for Journal entries has also begun | |
| 72 | |
| 73 If you have any problems with this release, don't hesitate to contact me. | |
| 74 | |
| 75 These changes come to you, as always, free under the GPL license!! What a wonderful | |
| 76 thing it is. It does mean that you can write your own program off of this library | |
| 77 and distribute it also for free. However, anyone with commercial interests for | |
| 78 developing applications they will be charging for are encouraged to get in touch | |
| 79 with me, as I am sure we can come to some arrangement. | |
| 80 | |
| 81 Dave Smith | |
| 82 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 83 | |
| 84 LibPST v0.4.3 | |
| 85 ============= | |
| 86 | |
| 87 Bug fix release. No extra functionality | |
| 88 | |
| 89 Dave Smith | |
| 90 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 91 | |
| 92 LibPST v0.4.2 | |
| 93 ============= | |
| 94 | |
| 95 The debug system has had an overhaul. The debug messages are no longer | |
| 96 printed to the screen when they are enabled. They are dumped to a | |
| 97 binary file. There is another utility called "readlog" that I have | |
| 98 written to handle these log files. It should make it easier to | |
| 99 selectively view bits of a log file. It also shows the position that | |
| 100 the log message was printed from. | |
| 101 | |
| 102 There is a new switch in readpst. It is -d. It enables the user to | |
| 103 specify the log file which the binary log is written to. If the switch | |
| 104 isn't used, the default file of "readpst.log" is used. | |
| 105 | |
| 106 The code is now Visual C++ compatible. It has compiled on Visual C++ | |
| 107 .net Standard edition, and produces the readpst.exe file. Use the project | |
| 108 file included in this distribution. | |
| 109 | |
| 110 There have been minor improvements elsewhere too. | |
| 111 | |
| 112 | |
| 113 LibPST v0.4.1 | |
| 114 ============= | |
| 115 | |
| 116 Fixed a couple more bugs. Is it me or do bugs just insert themselves | |
| 117 in random, hard to find places! | |
| 118 | |
| 119 Cured a few problems with regard to emails with multiple embeded | |
| 120 items. They are not fully re-created using Mime-types, but are | |
| 121 accessible with the -S switch (which saves everything as seperate | |
| 122 items) | |
| 123 | |
| 124 Fixed a problem reading the first index. Back sliders are now | |
| 125 detected. (ie when the value following the current one is smaller, not | |
| 126 bigger!) | |
| 127 | |
| 128 Added some error messages when we try and read outside of the PST | |
| 129 file, this was causing a few problems before, cause the return value | |
| 130 wasn't always checked, so it was possible to be reading random data, | |
| 131 and trying to make sense of it! | |
| 132 | |
| 133 Anyway, if you find any problems, don't hesitate to mail me | |
| 134 | |
| 135 Dave Smith | |
| 136 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 137 | |
| 138 LibPST v0.4 | |
| 139 =========== | |
| 140 | |
| 141 Fixed a nasty bug that occasionally corrupted attachments. Another bug | |
| 142 with regard to reading of indexes (also occasional). | |
| 143 | |
| 144 Another output method has been added which is called "Seperate". It is | |
| 145 activated with the -S switch. It operates in the following manor: | |
| 146 | |
| 147 |--Inbox-->000000 | |
| 11 | 148 | 000001 |
| 149 | 000002 | |
| 3 | 150 |--Sentmail-->0000000 |
| 11 | 151 | 0000001 |
| 152 | 0000002 | |
| 3 | 153 |
| 154 All the emails are stored in seperate files counting from 0 upwards, | |
| 155 in a folder named as the PST folder. | |
| 156 | |
| 157 When an email has an attachment, it is saved as a seperate file. The | |
| 158 filename for the attachment is made up of 2 parts, the first is the | |
| 159 email number to which it belongs, the second is its filename. | |
| 160 | |
| 161 The should now be runnable on big-endian machines, if the define.h | |
| 162 file is first modified. The #define LITTLE_ENDIAN must be commented | |
| 163 out, and the #define BIG_ENDIAN must be uncommented. | |
| 164 | |
| 165 More verbose error messages have been added. Apparently people got | |
| 166 confused when the program stopped for no visible reason. This has now | |
| 167 been resolved. | |
| 168 | |
| 169 Thanks for the continued support of all people involved. | |
| 170 | |
| 171 Dave Smith | |
| 172 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 173 | |
| 174 Libpst v0.3.4 | |
| 175 ============= | |
| 176 | |
| 177 Several more fixes. An Infinite loop and incorrect interpreting of | |
| 178 item index attributes. Work has started on making the code executable | |
| 179 on big endian CPUs. At present it should work with Linux on these | |
| 180 CPUs, but I would appreciate it if you could provide feedback with | |
| 181 regard to it's performance. I am also working with some other people | |
| 182 at make it operate on Solaris. | |
| 183 | |
| 184 A whole load more items are now recognized by the Item records. With | |
| 185 more items in Emails and Folders. I haven't got to the Contacts yet. | |
| 186 | |
| 187 Anyway, this is what I would call a minor feature enhancment and | |
| 188 bugfix release. | |
| 189 | |
| 190 Dave Smith | |
| 191 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 192 | |
| 193 LibPST v0.3.3 | |
| 194 ============= | |
| 195 | |
| 196 Fixed several items. Mainly memory leaks. Loads of them! oops.. | |
| 197 | |
| 198 I have added a new program, mainly of debugging, which when passed | |
| 11 | 199 an ID value and a pst file, will extract and decrypt that ID from |
| 3 | 200 the pst file. I don't see it being a huge attraction, or of much use |
| 201 to most people, but it is another example of writing an application | |
| 202 to use the libpst interface. | |
| 203 | |
| 204 Another fix was in the reading of the item index. This has hopefully | |
| 205 now been corrected. The result of this bug was that not all the emails | |
| 206 in a folder were converted. Hopefully you should have more luck now. | |
| 207 | |
| 208 Dave Smith | |
| 209 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 210 | |
| 211 LibPST v0.3.2 | |
| 212 ============= | |
| 213 | |
| 214 Quick bugfix release. There was a bug in the decryption of the basic | |
| 215 encryption that outlook uses. One byte, 0x6c, was incorrectly decrypted | |
| 216 to 0x6c instead of 0xcd. This release fixes this bug. Sorry... | |
| 217 | |
| 218 | |
| 219 LibPST v0.3.1 | |
| 220 ============= | |
| 221 | |
| 222 Minor improvements. Fixed bug when linking multiple blocks together, | |
| 223 so now the linking blocks are not "encrypted" when trying to read | |
| 224 them. | |
| 225 | |
| 226 | |
| 227 LibPST v0.3 | |
| 228 =========== | |
| 229 | |
| 230 A lot of bug fixing has been done for this release. Testing has been | |
| 231 done on the creation of the files by readpst. Better handling of | |
| 232 large binaries being extracted from the PST file has been implemented. | |
| 233 | |
| 234 Quite a few reports have come in about not being able to compile on | |
| 235 Darwin. This could be down to using macros with variable parameter | |
| 236 lists. This has now been changed to use C functions with variable | |
| 237 parameters. I hope this fixes a lot of problems. | |
| 238 | |
| 239 Added support for recreating the folder structure into normal | |
| 240 directories. For Instance: | |
| 241 | |
| 242 Personal Folders | |
| 243 |-Inbox | |
| 244 | |-Jokes | |
| 245 | |-Meetings | |
| 246 |-Send Items | |
| 247 | |
| 248 each folder containing an mbox file with the correct emails for that | |
| 249 folder. | |
| 250 | |
| 251 Dave Smith | |
| 252 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 253 | |
| 254 | |
| 255 LibPST v0.3 beta1 | |
| 256 ================= | |
| 257 | |
| 258 Again, a shed load of enhancements. More work has been done on the | |
| 259 mime creation. A bug has been fixed that was letting part of the | |
| 11 | 260 attachments that were created disappear. |
| 3 | 261 |
| 262 A major enhancement is that "compressible encryption" support has been | |
| 263 added. This was an incredibly simple method to use. It is basically a | |
| 264 ceasar cipher. It has been noted by several users already that the PST | |
| 265 password that Outlook uses, serves *no purpose*. It is not used to | |
| 266 encrypt the PST, it is mearly stored there. This means that the | |
| 267 readpst application is able to convert PST files without knowing the | |
| 268 password. Microsoft have some explaning to do! | |
| 269 | |
| 270 Output files are now not overwritten if they already exist. This means | |
| 271 that if you have two folders in your PST file named "fred", the first | |
| 272 one encountered will be named "fred" and the second one will be named | |
| 273 "fred00000001". As you can see, there is enough room there for many | |
| 274 duplicate names! | |
| 275 | |
| 276 Output filenames are now restricted. Any "/" or "\" characters in the | |
| 277 name are replaced with "_". If you find that there are any other | |
| 278 characters that need to be changed, could you please make me aware! | |
| 279 | |
| 280 Thanks to Berry Wizard for help with supporting the encryption. | |
| 281 | |
| 282 Thanks to Auke Kok, Carolus Walraven and Yogesh Kumar Guatam for providing debugging | |
| 283 information and testing. | |
| 284 | |
| 285 Dave Smith | |
| 286 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 287 | |
| 288 | |
| 289 LibPST v0.2 beta1 | |
| 290 ================= | |
| 291 | |
| 292 Hello once more... | |
| 293 | |
| 294 Attachments are now re-created in mime format. The method is very | |
| 295 crude and could be prone to over generalisation. Please test this | |
| 296 version, and if attachments are not recreated correctly, please send | |
| 297 me the email (complete message source) of the original and | |
| 298 converted. Cheers. | |
| 299 | |
| 300 I hope this will work for everyone who uses this program, but reality | |
| 301 can be very different! | |
| 302 | |
| 303 Let us see how it goes... | |
| 304 | |
| 305 Dave Smith | |
| 306 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 307 | |
| 308 LibPST v0.2 alpha1 | |
| 309 =========== | |
| 310 | |
| 311 Hello! | |
| 312 | |
| 313 Some improvements. The internal code has been changed so that | |
| 314 attachments are now processed and loaded into the structures. The | |
| 315 readpst program is not finished yet. It needs to convert these binary | |
| 316 structs into mime data. At present it just saves them to the current | |
| 317 directory, overwriting any previous files with the attachment name. | |
| 318 | |
| 11 | 319 Improvements over previous version: |
| 3 | 320 * KMail output is supported - if the "-k" flag is specified, all the |
| 321 directory hierarchy is created using the KMail standard | |
| 322 * Lots of bugs and memory leaks fixed | |
| 323 | |
| 324 | |
| 325 Usage: | |
| 326 | |
| 327 ReadPST v0.2alpha1 implementing LibPST v0.2alpha1 | |
| 328 Usage: ./readpst [OPTIONS] {PST FILENAME} | |
| 329 OPTIONS: | |
| 330 -h - Help. This screen | |
| 331 -k - KMail. Output in kmail format | |
| 332 -o - Output Dir. Directory to write files to. CWD is changed *after* opening pst file | |
| 333 -V - Version. Display program version | |
| 334 | |
| 335 If you want to view lots of debug output, modify a line in "define.h" | |
| 336 from "//#define DEBUG_ALL" to "#define DEBUG_ALL". It would then be | |
| 337 advisable to pipe all output to a log file: | |
| 338 | |
| 339 ./readpst -o out pst_file &> logfile | |
| 340 | |
| 341 Dave Smith | |
| 342 | |
| 343 LibPST v0.1 | |
| 344 =========== | |
| 345 | |
| 346 Hi Folks! | |
| 347 | |
| 348 This has been a long, hard slog, but I now feel that I have got | |
| 349 somewhere useful. The included program "main" is able to read an | |
| 350 Outlook PST file and dump the emails into mbox files, separating each | |
| 351 folder into a different mbox file. All the mbox files are stored in | |
| 352 the current directory and no attempt is yet made to organise these | |
| 353 files into a directory hierarchy. This would not be too difficult to | |
| 354 achieve though. | |
| 355 | |
| 356 Email attachments are not yet handled, neither are Contacts. | |
| 357 | |
| 358 There is no pretty interface yet, but you can convert a PST file in | |
| 359 the following manner | |
| 360 | |
| 361 ./main {path to PST file} | |
| 362 | |
| 363 This is very much a work in progress, but I thought I should release | |
| 364 this code so that people can lose their conception that outlook files | |
| 365 will never be converted to Linux. | |
| 366 | |
| 367 I am intending that the code I am writing will be developed into | |
| 368 greater applications to provide USEFUL tools for accessing and | |
| 369 converting PST files into a variety of formats. | |
| 370 | |
| 371 One point I feel I should make is that Outlook, by default, creates | |
| 372 "Compressible Encryption" PST files. I have not, as yet, attempted to | |
| 373 write any decryption routines, so you will not be able to convert | |
| 374 these files. However, if you create a new PST file and choose not to | |
| 375 make an encrypted one, you can copy all your emails into this new one | |
| 376 and then convert the unencrypted one. | |
| 377 | |
| 378 I hope you enjoy, | |
| 379 | |
| 380 Dave Smith | |
| 381 | |
| 382 : vim: set tw=72 sw=4 ts=4: |