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