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annotate ChangeLog @ 30:45eccad4b606 stable-0-5-4
more cleanup from Arne, document 7c block format
| author | carl |
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| date | Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:16:15 -0800 |
| parents | f4643b609bdf |
| children | b88ceb81dba2 |
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| 30 | 1 LibPST 0.5.4 (2006-02-25) |
| 2 =============================== | |
| 3 | |
| 4 * patches from Arne, adding MH mode, remove leading zeros | |
| 5 from the generated numbered filenames starting with one | |
| 6 rather than zero. Miscellaneous code cleanup. | |
| 7 | |
| 8 * document the "7c" descriptor block format. | |
| 9 | |
| 24 | 10 LibPST 0.5.3 (2006-02-20) |
| 16 | 11 =============================== |
| 12 | |
| 24 | 13 * switch to gnu autoconf/automake. This breaks the MS VC++ projects |
| 14 since the source code is now in the src subdirectory. | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | 16 * documentation switched to xml, building man pages and html |
| 17 from the master xml copy. | |
| 18 | |
| 24 | 19 * include rpm .spec file for building src and binary rpms. |
| 20 | |
| 16 | 21 |
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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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22 LibPST 0.5.2 (2006-02-18) |
| 11 | 23 =============================== |
| 24 | |
| 25 * Added pst2ldif to convert the contacts to ldif format for import | |
| 26 into ldap databases. | |
| 27 | |
| 28 * Major changes to libpst.c to properly use the node depth values | |
| 29 from the b-tree nodes. We also use the item count values in the nodes | |
| 30 rather than trying to guess how many items are active. | |
| 31 | |
| 32 * Cleanup whitespace - using tabs for every four columns. | |
| 33 | |
| 34 | |
| 3 | 35 LibPST 0.5.1 (17 November 2004) |
| 36 =============================== | |
| 37 | |
| 38 Well, alot has happened since the last release of libpst. | |
| 39 | |
| 40 Release / Management: | |
| 41 | |
| 11 | 42 * The project has forked! The new maintainer is Joseph Nahmias. |
| 43 * We have changed hosting sites, thanks to sourceforge for hosting | |
| 44 to this point. From this point forward we will be using | |
| 45 alioth.debian.org. | |
| 46 * The project is now using SubVersioN for source control. You can | |
| 47 get the latest code by running: | |
| 48 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/libpst/trunk . | |
| 49 * See | |
| 50 <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libpst-devel/2004-November/000000.html> | |
| 51 for more information. | |
| 3 | 52 |
| 53 Code Changes: | |
| 54 | |
| 11 | 55 * Added lspst program to list items in a PST. Still incomplete. |
| 56 * Added vim folding markers to readpst.c | |
| 57 * avoid the pseudo-prologue that MS prepends to the email headers | |
| 58 * fix build on msvc, since it doesn't have sys/param.h | |
| 59 * Re-vamped Makefile: | |
| 60 * Only define CFLAGS in Makefileif missing | |
| 61 * fixed {un,}install targets in Makefile | |
| 62 * Fixed up build process in Makefile | |
| 63 * Added mozilla conversion script from David Binard | |
| 64 * Fixed bogus creation of readpst.log on every invocation | |
| 65 * escaped dashes and apostrophe in manpages | |
| 66 * Updated TODO | |
| 67 * added manpages from debian pkg | |
| 68 * fix escaped-string length count to consider '\n', | |
| 69 thanks to Paul Bakker <bakker@fox-it.com>. | |
| 70 * ensure there's a blank line between header and body | |
| 71 patch from <johnh@aproposretail.com> (SourceForge #890745). | |
| 72 * Apply accumulated endian-related patches | |
| 73 * Removed unused files, upstream's debian/ dir | |
| 3 | 74 |
| 75 -- Joe Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> | |
| 76 | |
| 77 LibPST v0.5 | |
| 78 =========== | |
| 79 | |
| 80 It is with GREAT relief that I bring you version 0.5 of the LibPST tools! | |
| 81 | |
| 82 Through great difficulties, this tool has survived and expanded to become even | |
| 83 better. | |
| 84 | |
| 85 The changes are as follows: | |
| 86 * RTF support. We can now decompress RTF bodies in emails, and are saved as attachments | |
| 87 * Better support in reading the indexes. Fixed many bugs with them | |
| 88 * Improved reliability. "Now we are getting somewhere!" | |
| 89 * Improved compiling. Hopefully we won't be hitting too many compile errors now. | |
| 90 * vCard handling. Contacts are now exported as vCard entries. | |
| 91 * vEvent handling. Support has begun on exporting Calendar entries as events | |
| 92 * Support for Journal entries has also begun | |
| 93 | |
| 94 If you have any problems with this release, don't hesitate to contact me. | |
| 95 | |
| 96 These changes come to you, as always, free under the GPL license!! What a wonderful | |
| 97 thing it is. It does mean that you can write your own program off of this library | |
| 98 and distribute it also for free. However, anyone with commercial interests for | |
| 99 developing applications they will be charging for are encouraged to get in touch | |
| 100 with me, as I am sure we can come to some arrangement. | |
| 101 | |
| 102 Dave Smith | |
| 103 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 104 | |
| 105 LibPST v0.4.3 | |
| 106 ============= | |
| 107 | |
| 108 Bug fix release. No extra functionality | |
| 109 | |
| 110 Dave Smith | |
| 111 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 112 | |
| 113 LibPST v0.4.2 | |
| 114 ============= | |
| 115 | |
| 116 The debug system has had an overhaul. The debug messages are no longer | |
| 117 printed to the screen when they are enabled. They are dumped to a | |
| 118 binary file. There is another utility called "readlog" that I have | |
| 119 written to handle these log files. It should make it easier to | |
| 120 selectively view bits of a log file. It also shows the position that | |
| 121 the log message was printed from. | |
| 122 | |
| 123 There is a new switch in readpst. It is -d. It enables the user to | |
| 124 specify the log file which the binary log is written to. If the switch | |
| 125 isn't used, the default file of "readpst.log" is used. | |
| 126 | |
| 127 The code is now Visual C++ compatible. It has compiled on Visual C++ | |
| 128 .net Standard edition, and produces the readpst.exe file. Use the project | |
| 129 file included in this distribution. | |
| 130 | |
| 131 There have been minor improvements elsewhere too. | |
| 132 | |
| 133 | |
| 134 LibPST v0.4.1 | |
| 135 ============= | |
| 136 | |
| 137 Fixed a couple more bugs. Is it me or do bugs just insert themselves | |
| 138 in random, hard to find places! | |
| 139 | |
| 140 Cured a few problems with regard to emails with multiple embeded | |
| 141 items. They are not fully re-created using Mime-types, but are | |
| 142 accessible with the -S switch (which saves everything as seperate | |
| 143 items) | |
| 144 | |
| 145 Fixed a problem reading the first index. Back sliders are now | |
| 146 detected. (ie when the value following the current one is smaller, not | |
| 147 bigger!) | |
| 148 | |
| 149 Added some error messages when we try and read outside of the PST | |
| 150 file, this was causing a few problems before, cause the return value | |
| 151 wasn't always checked, so it was possible to be reading random data, | |
| 152 and trying to make sense of it! | |
| 153 | |
| 154 Anyway, if you find any problems, don't hesitate to mail me | |
| 155 | |
| 156 Dave Smith | |
| 157 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 158 | |
| 159 LibPST v0.4 | |
| 160 =========== | |
| 161 | |
| 162 Fixed a nasty bug that occasionally corrupted attachments. Another bug | |
| 163 with regard to reading of indexes (also occasional). | |
| 164 | |
| 165 Another output method has been added which is called "Seperate". It is | |
| 166 activated with the -S switch. It operates in the following manor: | |
| 167 | |
| 168 |--Inbox-->000000 | |
| 11 | 169 | 000001 |
| 170 | 000002 | |
| 3 | 171 |--Sentmail-->0000000 |
| 11 | 172 | 0000001 |
| 173 | 0000002 | |
| 3 | 174 |
| 175 All the emails are stored in seperate files counting from 0 upwards, | |
| 176 in a folder named as the PST folder. | |
| 177 | |
| 178 When an email has an attachment, it is saved as a seperate file. The | |
| 179 filename for the attachment is made up of 2 parts, the first is the | |
| 180 email number to which it belongs, the second is its filename. | |
| 181 | |
| 182 The should now be runnable on big-endian machines, if the define.h | |
| 183 file is first modified. The #define LITTLE_ENDIAN must be commented | |
| 184 out, and the #define BIG_ENDIAN must be uncommented. | |
| 185 | |
| 186 More verbose error messages have been added. Apparently people got | |
| 187 confused when the program stopped for no visible reason. This has now | |
| 188 been resolved. | |
| 189 | |
| 190 Thanks for the continued support of all people involved. | |
| 191 | |
| 192 Dave Smith | |
| 193 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 194 | |
| 195 Libpst v0.3.4 | |
| 196 ============= | |
| 197 | |
| 198 Several more fixes. An Infinite loop and incorrect interpreting of | |
| 199 item index attributes. Work has started on making the code executable | |
| 200 on big endian CPUs. At present it should work with Linux on these | |
| 201 CPUs, but I would appreciate it if you could provide feedback with | |
| 202 regard to it's performance. I am also working with some other people | |
| 203 at make it operate on Solaris. | |
| 204 | |
| 205 A whole load more items are now recognized by the Item records. With | |
| 206 more items in Emails and Folders. I haven't got to the Contacts yet. | |
| 207 | |
| 208 Anyway, this is what I would call a minor feature enhancment and | |
| 209 bugfix release. | |
| 210 | |
| 211 Dave Smith | |
| 212 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 213 | |
| 214 LibPST v0.3.3 | |
| 215 ============= | |
| 216 | |
| 217 Fixed several items. Mainly memory leaks. Loads of them! oops.. | |
| 218 | |
| 219 I have added a new program, mainly of debugging, which when passed | |
| 11 | 220 an ID value and a pst file, will extract and decrypt that ID from |
| 3 | 221 the pst file. I don't see it being a huge attraction, or of much use |
| 222 to most people, but it is another example of writing an application | |
| 223 to use the libpst interface. | |
| 224 | |
| 225 Another fix was in the reading of the item index. This has hopefully | |
| 226 now been corrected. The result of this bug was that not all the emails | |
| 227 in a folder were converted. Hopefully you should have more luck now. | |
| 228 | |
| 229 Dave Smith | |
| 230 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 231 | |
| 232 LibPST v0.3.2 | |
| 233 ============= | |
| 234 | |
| 235 Quick bugfix release. There was a bug in the decryption of the basic | |
| 236 encryption that outlook uses. One byte, 0x6c, was incorrectly decrypted | |
| 237 to 0x6c instead of 0xcd. This release fixes this bug. Sorry... | |
| 238 | |
| 239 | |
| 240 LibPST v0.3.1 | |
| 241 ============= | |
| 242 | |
| 243 Minor improvements. Fixed bug when linking multiple blocks together, | |
| 244 so now the linking blocks are not "encrypted" when trying to read | |
| 245 them. | |
| 246 | |
| 247 | |
| 248 LibPST v0.3 | |
| 249 =========== | |
| 250 | |
| 251 A lot of bug fixing has been done for this release. Testing has been | |
| 252 done on the creation of the files by readpst. Better handling of | |
| 253 large binaries being extracted from the PST file has been implemented. | |
| 254 | |
| 255 Quite a few reports have come in about not being able to compile on | |
| 256 Darwin. This could be down to using macros with variable parameter | |
| 257 lists. This has now been changed to use C functions with variable | |
| 258 parameters. I hope this fixes a lot of problems. | |
| 259 | |
| 260 Added support for recreating the folder structure into normal | |
| 261 directories. For Instance: | |
| 262 | |
| 263 Personal Folders | |
| 264 |-Inbox | |
| 265 | |-Jokes | |
| 266 | |-Meetings | |
| 267 |-Send Items | |
| 268 | |
| 269 each folder containing an mbox file with the correct emails for that | |
| 270 folder. | |
| 271 | |
| 272 Dave Smith | |
| 273 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 274 | |
| 275 | |
| 276 LibPST v0.3 beta1 | |
| 277 ================= | |
| 278 | |
| 279 Again, a shed load of enhancements. More work has been done on the | |
| 280 mime creation. A bug has been fixed that was letting part of the | |
| 11 | 281 attachments that were created disappear. |
| 3 | 282 |
| 283 A major enhancement is that "compressible encryption" support has been | |
| 284 added. This was an incredibly simple method to use. It is basically a | |
| 285 ceasar cipher. It has been noted by several users already that the PST | |
| 286 password that Outlook uses, serves *no purpose*. It is not used to | |
| 287 encrypt the PST, it is mearly stored there. This means that the | |
| 288 readpst application is able to convert PST files without knowing the | |
| 289 password. Microsoft have some explaning to do! | |
| 290 | |
| 291 Output files are now not overwritten if they already exist. This means | |
| 292 that if you have two folders in your PST file named "fred", the first | |
| 293 one encountered will be named "fred" and the second one will be named | |
| 294 "fred00000001". As you can see, there is enough room there for many | |
| 295 duplicate names! | |
| 296 | |
| 297 Output filenames are now restricted. Any "/" or "\" characters in the | |
| 298 name are replaced with "_". If you find that there are any other | |
| 299 characters that need to be changed, could you please make me aware! | |
| 300 | |
| 301 Thanks to Berry Wizard for help with supporting the encryption. | |
| 302 | |
| 303 Thanks to Auke Kok, Carolus Walraven and Yogesh Kumar Guatam for providing debugging | |
| 304 information and testing. | |
| 305 | |
| 306 Dave Smith | |
| 307 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 308 | |
| 309 | |
| 310 LibPST v0.2 beta1 | |
| 311 ================= | |
| 312 | |
| 313 Hello once more... | |
| 314 | |
| 315 Attachments are now re-created in mime format. The method is very | |
| 316 crude and could be prone to over generalisation. Please test this | |
| 317 version, and if attachments are not recreated correctly, please send | |
| 318 me the email (complete message source) of the original and | |
| 319 converted. Cheers. | |
| 320 | |
| 321 I hope this will work for everyone who uses this program, but reality | |
| 322 can be very different! | |
| 323 | |
| 324 Let us see how it goes... | |
| 325 | |
| 326 Dave Smith | |
| 327 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 328 | |
| 329 LibPST v0.2 alpha1 | |
| 330 =========== | |
| 331 | |
| 332 Hello! | |
| 333 | |
| 334 Some improvements. The internal code has been changed so that | |
| 335 attachments are now processed and loaded into the structures. The | |
| 336 readpst program is not finished yet. It needs to convert these binary | |
| 337 structs into mime data. At present it just saves them to the current | |
| 338 directory, overwriting any previous files with the attachment name. | |
| 339 | |
| 11 | 340 Improvements over previous version: |
| 3 | 341 * KMail output is supported - if the "-k" flag is specified, all the |
| 342 directory hierarchy is created using the KMail standard | |
| 343 * Lots of bugs and memory leaks fixed | |
| 344 | |
| 345 | |
| 346 Usage: | |
| 347 | |
| 348 ReadPST v0.2alpha1 implementing LibPST v0.2alpha1 | |
| 349 Usage: ./readpst [OPTIONS] {PST FILENAME} | |
| 350 OPTIONS: | |
| 351 -h - Help. This screen | |
| 352 -k - KMail. Output in kmail format | |
| 353 -o - Output Dir. Directory to write files to. CWD is changed *after* opening pst file | |
| 354 -V - Version. Display program version | |
| 355 | |
| 356 If you want to view lots of debug output, modify a line in "define.h" | |
| 357 from "//#define DEBUG_ALL" to "#define DEBUG_ALL". It would then be | |
| 358 advisable to pipe all output to a log file: | |
| 359 | |
| 360 ./readpst -o out pst_file &> logfile | |
| 361 | |
| 362 Dave Smith | |
| 363 | |
| 364 LibPST v0.1 | |
| 365 =========== | |
| 366 | |
| 367 Hi Folks! | |
| 368 | |
| 369 This has been a long, hard slog, but I now feel that I have got | |
| 370 somewhere useful. The included program "main" is able to read an | |
| 371 Outlook PST file and dump the emails into mbox files, separating each | |
| 372 folder into a different mbox file. All the mbox files are stored in | |
| 373 the current directory and no attempt is yet made to organise these | |
| 374 files into a directory hierarchy. This would not be too difficult to | |
| 375 achieve though. | |
| 376 | |
| 377 Email attachments are not yet handled, neither are Contacts. | |
| 378 | |
| 379 There is no pretty interface yet, but you can convert a PST file in | |
| 380 the following manner | |
| 381 | |
| 382 ./main {path to PST file} | |
| 383 | |
| 384 This is very much a work in progress, but I thought I should release | |
| 385 this code so that people can lose their conception that outlook files | |
| 386 will never be converted to Linux. | |
| 387 | |
| 388 I am intending that the code I am writing will be developed into | |
| 389 greater applications to provide USEFUL tools for accessing and | |
| 390 converting PST files into a variety of formats. | |
| 391 | |
| 392 One point I feel I should make is that Outlook, by default, creates | |
| 393 "Compressible Encryption" PST files. I have not, as yet, attempted to | |
| 394 write any decryption routines, so you will not be able to convert | |
| 395 these files. However, if you create a new PST file and choose not to | |
| 396 make an encrypted one, you can copy all your emails into this new one | |
| 397 and then convert the unencrypted one. | |
| 398 | |
| 399 I hope you enjoy, | |
| 400 | |
| 401 Dave Smith | |
| 402 | |
| 403 : vim: set tw=72 sw=4 ts=4: |