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43 | 1 LibPST 0.6.1 (2008-01-06) |
2 =============================== | |
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4 * Outlook 2003 64 bit parsing. Some documentation from Alexander Grau | |
5 <alexandergrau@gmx.de> and patches from Sean Loaring <sloaring@tec-man.com>. | |
6 * fix from Antonio Palama <palama@inwind.it> for email items | |
7 that happen to have item->contact non null, and were being processed | |
8 as contacts. | |
9 * Add large file support so we can read .pst files larger than 2gb. | |
10 * Change lspst to be similar to readpst, properly using recursion to walk | |
11 the tree, and testing item types. Add a man page for lspst. | |
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16 * security fix from Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> for buffer |
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17 overruns in liv-zemple decoding for corrupted or malicious pst files. |
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40 | 19 LibPST 0.5.11 (2007-08-24) |
20 =============================== | |
21 | |
22 * fix from Stevens Miller <smiller@novadatalabs.com> | |
23 for unitialized variable. | |
24 | |
39 | 25 LibPST 0.5.10 (2007-08-20) |
26 =============================== | |
27 | |
28 * fix yet more valgrind errors - finally have a clean memory check. | |
29 * restructure readpst.c for proper recursive tree walk. | |
30 * buffer overrun test was backwards, introduced at 0.5.6 | |
31 * fix broken email attachments, introduced at 0.5.6 | |
32 | |
38 | 33 LibPST 0.5.9 (2007-08-12) |
34 =============================== | |
35 | |
36 * fix more valgrind errors. | |
37 | |
37 | 38 LibPST 0.5.8 (2007-08-10) |
39 =============================== | |
40 | |
41 * fix more valgrind errors. lzfu_decompress needs to return the | |
42 actual buffer size, since the lz header overestimates the size. | |
43 This caused base64_encode to encode undefined bytes into the | |
44 email attachment. | |
45 | |
36 | 46 LibPST 0.5.7 (2007-08-09) |
47 =============================== | |
48 | |
49 * fix valgrind errors, using uninitialized data. | |
50 * improve debug logging and readpstlog for indented listings. | |
51 * cleanup documentation. | |
52 | |
35 | 53 LibPST 0.5.6 (2007-07-15) |
54 =============================== | |
55 | |
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57 tree. We were mixing signed/unsigned types in comparisons. |
35 | 58 * More progress decoding the basic structure 7c blocks. Many |
59 four byte values may be ID2 indices with data outside the buffer. | |
60 * Start using doxygen to generate internal documentation. | |
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31 | 62 LibPST 0.5.5 (2007-07-10) |
63 =============================== | |
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65 * merge the following changes from Joe Nahmias version: |
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66 * Lots of memory fixes. Thanks to Nigel Horne for his assistance |
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67 tracking these down! |
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68 * Fixed creation of vCards from contacts, thanks to Nigel Horne for |
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69 his help with this! |
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70 * fix for MIME multipart/alternative attachments. |
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71 * added -c options to readpst manpage. |
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72 * use 8.3 attachment filename if long filename isn't available. |
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73 * new -b option to skip rtf-body.rtf attachments. |
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74 * fix format of From header lines in mbox files. |
43 | 75 * Add more appointment fields, thanks to Chris Halls for tracking |
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31 | 77 |
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30 | 79 LibPST 0.5.4 (2006-02-25) |
80 =============================== | |
81 | |
82 * patches from Arne, adding MH mode, remove leading zeros | |
83 from the generated numbered filenames starting with one | |
84 rather than zero. Miscellaneous code cleanup. | |
85 | |
86 * document the "7c" descriptor block format. | |
87 | |
24 | 88 LibPST 0.5.3 (2006-02-20) |
16 | 89 =============================== |
90 | |
24 | 91 * switch to gnu autoconf/automake. This breaks the MS VC++ projects |
92 since the source code is now in the src subdirectory. | |
93 | |
16 | 94 * documentation switched to xml, building man pages and html |
95 from the master xml copy. | |
96 | |
24 | 97 * include rpm .spec file for building src and binary rpms. |
98 | |
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100 LibPST 0.5.2 (2006-02-18) |
11 | 101 =============================== |
102 | |
103 * Added pst2ldif to convert the contacts to ldif format for import | |
104 into ldap databases. | |
105 | |
106 * Major changes to libpst.c to properly use the node depth values | |
107 from the b-tree nodes. We also use the item count values in the nodes | |
108 rather than trying to guess how many items are active. | |
109 | |
110 * Cleanup whitespace - using tabs for every four columns. | |
111 | |
112 | |
3 | 113 LibPST 0.5.1 (17 November 2004) |
114 =============================== | |
115 | |
116 Well, alot has happened since the last release of libpst. | |
117 | |
118 Release / Management: | |
119 | |
11 | 120 * The project has forked! The new maintainer is Joseph Nahmias. |
121 * We have changed hosting sites, thanks to sourceforge for hosting | |
122 to this point. From this point forward we will be using | |
123 alioth.debian.org. | |
124 * The project is now using SubVersioN for source control. You can | |
125 get the latest code by running: | |
126 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/libpst/trunk . | |
127 * See | |
128 <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libpst-devel/2004-November/000000.html> | |
129 for more information. | |
3 | 130 |
131 Code Changes: | |
132 | |
11 | 133 * Added lspst program to list items in a PST. Still incomplete. |
134 * Added vim folding markers to readpst.c | |
135 * avoid the pseudo-prologue that MS prepends to the email headers | |
136 * fix build on msvc, since it doesn't have sys/param.h | |
137 * Re-vamped Makefile: | |
138 * Only define CFLAGS in Makefileif missing | |
139 * fixed {un,}install targets in Makefile | |
140 * Fixed up build process in Makefile | |
141 * Added mozilla conversion script from David Binard | |
142 * Fixed bogus creation of readpst.log on every invocation | |
143 * escaped dashes and apostrophe in manpages | |
144 * Updated TODO | |
145 * added manpages from debian pkg | |
146 * fix escaped-string length count to consider '\n', | |
147 thanks to Paul Bakker <bakker@fox-it.com>. | |
148 * ensure there's a blank line between header and body | |
149 patch from <johnh@aproposretail.com> (SourceForge #890745). | |
150 * Apply accumulated endian-related patches | |
151 * Removed unused files, upstream's debian/ dir | |
3 | 152 |
153 -- Joe Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> | |
154 | |
155 LibPST v0.5 | |
156 =========== | |
157 | |
158 It is with GREAT relief that I bring you version 0.5 of the LibPST tools! | |
159 | |
160 Through great difficulties, this tool has survived and expanded to become even | |
161 better. | |
162 | |
163 The changes are as follows: | |
164 * RTF support. We can now decompress RTF bodies in emails, and are saved as attachments | |
165 * Better support in reading the indexes. Fixed many bugs with them | |
166 * Improved reliability. "Now we are getting somewhere!" | |
167 * Improved compiling. Hopefully we won't be hitting too many compile errors now. | |
168 * vCard handling. Contacts are now exported as vCard entries. | |
169 * vEvent handling. Support has begun on exporting Calendar entries as events | |
170 * Support for Journal entries has also begun | |
171 | |
172 If you have any problems with this release, don't hesitate to contact me. | |
173 | |
174 These changes come to you, as always, free under the GPL license!! What a wonderful | |
175 thing it is. It does mean that you can write your own program off of this library | |
176 and distribute it also for free. However, anyone with commercial interests for | |
177 developing applications they will be charging for are encouraged to get in touch | |
178 with me, as I am sure we can come to some arrangement. | |
179 | |
180 Dave Smith | |
181 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
182 | |
183 LibPST v0.4.3 | |
184 ============= | |
185 | |
186 Bug fix release. No extra functionality | |
187 | |
188 Dave Smith | |
189 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
190 | |
191 LibPST v0.4.2 | |
192 ============= | |
193 | |
194 The debug system has had an overhaul. The debug messages are no longer | |
195 printed to the screen when they are enabled. They are dumped to a | |
196 binary file. There is another utility called "readlog" that I have | |
197 written to handle these log files. It should make it easier to | |
198 selectively view bits of a log file. It also shows the position that | |
199 the log message was printed from. | |
200 | |
201 There is a new switch in readpst. It is -d. It enables the user to | |
202 specify the log file which the binary log is written to. If the switch | |
203 isn't used, the default file of "readpst.log" is used. | |
204 | |
205 The code is now Visual C++ compatible. It has compiled on Visual C++ | |
206 .net Standard edition, and produces the readpst.exe file. Use the project | |
207 file included in this distribution. | |
208 | |
209 There have been minor improvements elsewhere too. | |
210 | |
211 | |
212 LibPST v0.4.1 | |
213 ============= | |
214 | |
215 Fixed a couple more bugs. Is it me or do bugs just insert themselves | |
216 in random, hard to find places! | |
217 | |
218 Cured a few problems with regard to emails with multiple embeded | |
219 items. They are not fully re-created using Mime-types, but are | |
220 accessible with the -S switch (which saves everything as seperate | |
221 items) | |
222 | |
223 Fixed a problem reading the first index. Back sliders are now | |
224 detected. (ie when the value following the current one is smaller, not | |
225 bigger!) | |
226 | |
227 Added some error messages when we try and read outside of the PST | |
228 file, this was causing a few problems before, cause the return value | |
229 wasn't always checked, so it was possible to be reading random data, | |
230 and trying to make sense of it! | |
231 | |
232 Anyway, if you find any problems, don't hesitate to mail me | |
233 | |
234 Dave Smith | |
235 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
236 | |
237 LibPST v0.4 | |
238 =========== | |
239 | |
240 Fixed a nasty bug that occasionally corrupted attachments. Another bug | |
241 with regard to reading of indexes (also occasional). | |
242 | |
243 Another output method has been added which is called "Seperate". It is | |
244 activated with the -S switch. It operates in the following manor: | |
245 | |
246 |--Inbox-->000000 | |
11 | 247 | 000001 |
248 | 000002 | |
3 | 249 |--Sentmail-->0000000 |
11 | 250 | 0000001 |
251 | 0000002 | |
3 | 252 |
253 All the emails are stored in seperate files counting from 0 upwards, | |
254 in a folder named as the PST folder. | |
255 | |
256 When an email has an attachment, it is saved as a seperate file. The | |
257 filename for the attachment is made up of 2 parts, the first is the | |
258 email number to which it belongs, the second is its filename. | |
259 | |
260 The should now be runnable on big-endian machines, if the define.h | |
261 file is first modified. The #define LITTLE_ENDIAN must be commented | |
262 out, and the #define BIG_ENDIAN must be uncommented. | |
263 | |
264 More verbose error messages have been added. Apparently people got | |
265 confused when the program stopped for no visible reason. This has now | |
266 been resolved. | |
267 | |
268 Thanks for the continued support of all people involved. | |
269 | |
270 Dave Smith | |
271 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
272 | |
273 Libpst v0.3.4 | |
274 ============= | |
275 | |
276 Several more fixes. An Infinite loop and incorrect interpreting of | |
277 item index attributes. Work has started on making the code executable | |
278 on big endian CPUs. At present it should work with Linux on these | |
279 CPUs, but I would appreciate it if you could provide feedback with | |
280 regard to it's performance. I am also working with some other people | |
281 at make it operate on Solaris. | |
282 | |
283 A whole load more items are now recognized by the Item records. With | |
284 more items in Emails and Folders. I haven't got to the Contacts yet. | |
285 | |
286 Anyway, this is what I would call a minor feature enhancment and | |
287 bugfix release. | |
288 | |
289 Dave Smith | |
290 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
291 | |
292 LibPST v0.3.3 | |
293 ============= | |
294 | |
295 Fixed several items. Mainly memory leaks. Loads of them! oops.. | |
296 | |
297 I have added a new program, mainly of debugging, which when passed | |
11 | 298 an ID value and a pst file, will extract and decrypt that ID from |
3 | 299 the pst file. I don't see it being a huge attraction, or of much use |
300 to most people, but it is another example of writing an application | |
301 to use the libpst interface. | |
302 | |
303 Another fix was in the reading of the item index. This has hopefully | |
304 now been corrected. The result of this bug was that not all the emails | |
305 in a folder were converted. Hopefully you should have more luck now. | |
306 | |
307 Dave Smith | |
308 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
309 | |
310 LibPST v0.3.2 | |
311 ============= | |
312 | |
313 Quick bugfix release. There was a bug in the decryption of the basic | |
314 encryption that outlook uses. One byte, 0x6c, was incorrectly decrypted | |
315 to 0x6c instead of 0xcd. This release fixes this bug. Sorry... | |
316 | |
317 | |
318 LibPST v0.3.1 | |
319 ============= | |
320 | |
321 Minor improvements. Fixed bug when linking multiple blocks together, | |
322 so now the linking blocks are not "encrypted" when trying to read | |
323 them. | |
324 | |
325 | |
326 LibPST v0.3 | |
327 =========== | |
328 | |
329 A lot of bug fixing has been done for this release. Testing has been | |
330 done on the creation of the files by readpst. Better handling of | |
331 large binaries being extracted from the PST file has been implemented. | |
332 | |
333 Quite a few reports have come in about not being able to compile on | |
334 Darwin. This could be down to using macros with variable parameter | |
335 lists. This has now been changed to use C functions with variable | |
336 parameters. I hope this fixes a lot of problems. | |
337 | |
338 Added support for recreating the folder structure into normal | |
339 directories. For Instance: | |
340 | |
341 Personal Folders | |
342 |-Inbox | |
343 | |-Jokes | |
344 | |-Meetings | |
345 |-Send Items | |
346 | |
347 each folder containing an mbox file with the correct emails for that | |
348 folder. | |
349 | |
350 Dave Smith | |
351 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
352 | |
353 | |
354 LibPST v0.3 beta1 | |
355 ================= | |
356 | |
357 Again, a shed load of enhancements. More work has been done on the | |
358 mime creation. A bug has been fixed that was letting part of the | |
11 | 359 attachments that were created disappear. |
3 | 360 |
361 A major enhancement is that "compressible encryption" support has been | |
362 added. This was an incredibly simple method to use. It is basically a | |
363 ceasar cipher. It has been noted by several users already that the PST | |
364 password that Outlook uses, serves *no purpose*. It is not used to | |
365 encrypt the PST, it is mearly stored there. This means that the | |
366 readpst application is able to convert PST files without knowing the | |
367 password. Microsoft have some explaning to do! | |
368 | |
369 Output files are now not overwritten if they already exist. This means | |
370 that if you have two folders in your PST file named "fred", the first | |
371 one encountered will be named "fred" and the second one will be named | |
372 "fred00000001". As you can see, there is enough room there for many | |
373 duplicate names! | |
374 | |
375 Output filenames are now restricted. Any "/" or "\" characters in the | |
376 name are replaced with "_". If you find that there are any other | |
377 characters that need to be changed, could you please make me aware! | |
378 | |
379 Thanks to Berry Wizard for help with supporting the encryption. | |
380 | |
381 Thanks to Auke Kok, Carolus Walraven and Yogesh Kumar Guatam for providing debugging | |
382 information and testing. | |
383 | |
384 Dave Smith | |
385 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
386 | |
387 | |
388 LibPST v0.2 beta1 | |
389 ================= | |
390 | |
391 Hello once more... | |
392 | |
393 Attachments are now re-created in mime format. The method is very | |
394 crude and could be prone to over generalisation. Please test this | |
395 version, and if attachments are not recreated correctly, please send | |
396 me the email (complete message source) of the original and | |
397 converted. Cheers. | |
398 | |
399 I hope this will work for everyone who uses this program, but reality | |
400 can be very different! | |
401 | |
402 Let us see how it goes... | |
403 | |
404 Dave Smith | |
405 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
406 | |
407 LibPST v0.2 alpha1 | |
408 =========== | |
409 | |
410 Hello! | |
411 | |
412 Some improvements. The internal code has been changed so that | |
413 attachments are now processed and loaded into the structures. The | |
414 readpst program is not finished yet. It needs to convert these binary | |
415 structs into mime data. At present it just saves them to the current | |
416 directory, overwriting any previous files with the attachment name. | |
417 | |
11 | 418 Improvements over previous version: |
3 | 419 * KMail output is supported - if the "-k" flag is specified, all the |
420 directory hierarchy is created using the KMail standard | |
421 * Lots of bugs and memory leaks fixed | |
422 | |
423 | |
424 Usage: | |
425 | |
426 ReadPST v0.2alpha1 implementing LibPST v0.2alpha1 | |
427 Usage: ./readpst [OPTIONS] {PST FILENAME} | |
428 OPTIONS: | |
429 -h - Help. This screen | |
430 -k - KMail. Output in kmail format | |
431 -o - Output Dir. Directory to write files to. CWD is changed *after* opening pst file | |
432 -V - Version. Display program version | |
433 | |
434 If you want to view lots of debug output, modify a line in "define.h" | |
435 from "//#define DEBUG_ALL" to "#define DEBUG_ALL". It would then be | |
436 advisable to pipe all output to a log file: | |
437 | |
438 ./readpst -o out pst_file &> logfile | |
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440 Dave Smith | |
441 | |
442 LibPST v0.1 | |
443 =========== | |
444 | |
445 Hi Folks! | |
446 | |
447 This has been a long, hard slog, but I now feel that I have got | |
448 somewhere useful. The included program "main" is able to read an | |
449 Outlook PST file and dump the emails into mbox files, separating each | |
450 folder into a different mbox file. All the mbox files are stored in | |
451 the current directory and no attempt is yet made to organise these | |
452 files into a directory hierarchy. This would not be too difficult to | |
453 achieve though. | |
454 | |
455 Email attachments are not yet handled, neither are Contacts. | |
456 | |
457 There is no pretty interface yet, but you can convert a PST file in | |
458 the following manner | |
459 | |
460 ./main {path to PST file} | |
461 | |
462 This is very much a work in progress, but I thought I should release | |
463 this code so that people can lose their conception that outlook files | |
464 will never be converted to Linux. | |
465 | |
466 I am intending that the code I am writing will be developed into | |
467 greater applications to provide USEFUL tools for accessing and | |
468 converting PST files into a variety of formats. | |
469 | |
470 One point I feel I should make is that Outlook, by default, creates | |
471 "Compressible Encryption" PST files. I have not, as yet, attempted to | |
472 write any decryption routines, so you will not be able to convert | |
473 these files. However, if you create a new PST file and choose not to | |
474 make an encrypted one, you can copy all your emails into this new one | |
475 and then convert the unencrypted one. | |
476 | |
477 I hope you enjoy, | |
478 | |
479 Dave Smith | |
480 | |
481 : vim: set tw=72 sw=4 ts=4: |