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31 | 4 LibPST 0.5.5 (2007-07-10) |
5 =============================== | |
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7 * merge the following changes from Joe Nahmias version: |
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8 * Lots of memory fixes. Thanks to Nigel Horne for his assistance |
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10 * Fixed creation of vCards from contacts, thanks to Nigel Horne for |
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11 his help with this! |
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12 * fix for MIME multipart/alternative attachments. |
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13 * added -c options to readpst manpage. |
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14 * use 8.3 attachment filename if long filename isn't available. |
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15 * new -b option to skip rtf-body.rtf attachments. |
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16 * fix format of From header lines in mbox files. |
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17 * Add more appointment fields, thanks to Chris Hall for tracking |
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20 | |
30 | 21 LibPST 0.5.4 (2006-02-25) |
22 =============================== | |
23 | |
24 * patches from Arne, adding MH mode, remove leading zeros | |
25 from the generated numbered filenames starting with one | |
26 rather than zero. Miscellaneous code cleanup. | |
27 | |
28 * document the "7c" descriptor block format. | |
29 | |
24 | 30 LibPST 0.5.3 (2006-02-20) |
16 | 31 =============================== |
32 | |
24 | 33 * switch to gnu autoconf/automake. This breaks the MS VC++ projects |
34 since the source code is now in the src subdirectory. | |
35 | |
16 | 36 * documentation switched to xml, building man pages and html |
37 from the master xml copy. | |
38 | |
24 | 39 * include rpm .spec file for building src and binary rpms. |
40 | |
16 | 41 |
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42 LibPST 0.5.2 (2006-02-18) |
11 | 43 =============================== |
44 | |
45 * Added pst2ldif to convert the contacts to ldif format for import | |
46 into ldap databases. | |
47 | |
48 * Major changes to libpst.c to properly use the node depth values | |
49 from the b-tree nodes. We also use the item count values in the nodes | |
50 rather than trying to guess how many items are active. | |
51 | |
52 * Cleanup whitespace - using tabs for every four columns. | |
53 | |
54 | |
3 | 55 LibPST 0.5.1 (17 November 2004) |
56 =============================== | |
57 | |
58 Well, alot has happened since the last release of libpst. | |
59 | |
60 Release / Management: | |
61 | |
11 | 62 * The project has forked! The new maintainer is Joseph Nahmias. |
63 * We have changed hosting sites, thanks to sourceforge for hosting | |
64 to this point. From this point forward we will be using | |
65 alioth.debian.org. | |
66 * The project is now using SubVersioN for source control. You can | |
67 get the latest code by running: | |
68 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/libpst/trunk . | |
69 * See | |
70 <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libpst-devel/2004-November/000000.html> | |
71 for more information. | |
3 | 72 |
73 Code Changes: | |
74 | |
11 | 75 * Added lspst program to list items in a PST. Still incomplete. |
76 * Added vim folding markers to readpst.c | |
77 * avoid the pseudo-prologue that MS prepends to the email headers | |
78 * fix build on msvc, since it doesn't have sys/param.h | |
79 * Re-vamped Makefile: | |
80 * Only define CFLAGS in Makefileif missing | |
81 * fixed {un,}install targets in Makefile | |
82 * Fixed up build process in Makefile | |
83 * Added mozilla conversion script from David Binard | |
84 * Fixed bogus creation of readpst.log on every invocation | |
85 * escaped dashes and apostrophe in manpages | |
86 * Updated TODO | |
87 * added manpages from debian pkg | |
88 * fix escaped-string length count to consider '\n', | |
89 thanks to Paul Bakker <bakker@fox-it.com>. | |
90 * ensure there's a blank line between header and body | |
91 patch from <johnh@aproposretail.com> (SourceForge #890745). | |
92 * Apply accumulated endian-related patches | |
93 * Removed unused files, upstream's debian/ dir | |
3 | 94 |
95 -- Joe Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> | |
96 | |
97 LibPST v0.5 | |
98 =========== | |
99 | |
100 It is with GREAT relief that I bring you version 0.5 of the LibPST tools! | |
101 | |
102 Through great difficulties, this tool has survived and expanded to become even | |
103 better. | |
104 | |
105 The changes are as follows: | |
106 * RTF support. We can now decompress RTF bodies in emails, and are saved as attachments | |
107 * Better support in reading the indexes. Fixed many bugs with them | |
108 * Improved reliability. "Now we are getting somewhere!" | |
109 * Improved compiling. Hopefully we won't be hitting too many compile errors now. | |
110 * vCard handling. Contacts are now exported as vCard entries. | |
111 * vEvent handling. Support has begun on exporting Calendar entries as events | |
112 * Support for Journal entries has also begun | |
113 | |
114 If you have any problems with this release, don't hesitate to contact me. | |
115 | |
116 These changes come to you, as always, free under the GPL license!! What a wonderful | |
117 thing it is. It does mean that you can write your own program off of this library | |
118 and distribute it also for free. However, anyone with commercial interests for | |
119 developing applications they will be charging for are encouraged to get in touch | |
120 with me, as I am sure we can come to some arrangement. | |
121 | |
122 Dave Smith | |
123 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
124 | |
125 LibPST v0.4.3 | |
126 ============= | |
127 | |
128 Bug fix release. No extra functionality | |
129 | |
130 Dave Smith | |
131 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
132 | |
133 LibPST v0.4.2 | |
134 ============= | |
135 | |
136 The debug system has had an overhaul. The debug messages are no longer | |
137 printed to the screen when they are enabled. They are dumped to a | |
138 binary file. There is another utility called "readlog" that I have | |
139 written to handle these log files. It should make it easier to | |
140 selectively view bits of a log file. It also shows the position that | |
141 the log message was printed from. | |
142 | |
143 There is a new switch in readpst. It is -d. It enables the user to | |
144 specify the log file which the binary log is written to. If the switch | |
145 isn't used, the default file of "readpst.log" is used. | |
146 | |
147 The code is now Visual C++ compatible. It has compiled on Visual C++ | |
148 .net Standard edition, and produces the readpst.exe file. Use the project | |
149 file included in this distribution. | |
150 | |
151 There have been minor improvements elsewhere too. | |
152 | |
153 | |
154 LibPST v0.4.1 | |
155 ============= | |
156 | |
157 Fixed a couple more bugs. Is it me or do bugs just insert themselves | |
158 in random, hard to find places! | |
159 | |
160 Cured a few problems with regard to emails with multiple embeded | |
161 items. They are not fully re-created using Mime-types, but are | |
162 accessible with the -S switch (which saves everything as seperate | |
163 items) | |
164 | |
165 Fixed a problem reading the first index. Back sliders are now | |
166 detected. (ie when the value following the current one is smaller, not | |
167 bigger!) | |
168 | |
169 Added some error messages when we try and read outside of the PST | |
170 file, this was causing a few problems before, cause the return value | |
171 wasn't always checked, so it was possible to be reading random data, | |
172 and trying to make sense of it! | |
173 | |
174 Anyway, if you find any problems, don't hesitate to mail me | |
175 | |
176 Dave Smith | |
177 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
178 | |
179 LibPST v0.4 | |
180 =========== | |
181 | |
182 Fixed a nasty bug that occasionally corrupted attachments. Another bug | |
183 with regard to reading of indexes (also occasional). | |
184 | |
185 Another output method has been added which is called "Seperate". It is | |
186 activated with the -S switch. It operates in the following manor: | |
187 | |
188 |--Inbox-->000000 | |
11 | 189 | 000001 |
190 | 000002 | |
3 | 191 |--Sentmail-->0000000 |
11 | 192 | 0000001 |
193 | 0000002 | |
3 | 194 |
195 All the emails are stored in seperate files counting from 0 upwards, | |
196 in a folder named as the PST folder. | |
197 | |
198 When an email has an attachment, it is saved as a seperate file. The | |
199 filename for the attachment is made up of 2 parts, the first is the | |
200 email number to which it belongs, the second is its filename. | |
201 | |
202 The should now be runnable on big-endian machines, if the define.h | |
203 file is first modified. The #define LITTLE_ENDIAN must be commented | |
204 out, and the #define BIG_ENDIAN must be uncommented. | |
205 | |
206 More verbose error messages have been added. Apparently people got | |
207 confused when the program stopped for no visible reason. This has now | |
208 been resolved. | |
209 | |
210 Thanks for the continued support of all people involved. | |
211 | |
212 Dave Smith | |
213 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
214 | |
215 Libpst v0.3.4 | |
216 ============= | |
217 | |
218 Several more fixes. An Infinite loop and incorrect interpreting of | |
219 item index attributes. Work has started on making the code executable | |
220 on big endian CPUs. At present it should work with Linux on these | |
221 CPUs, but I would appreciate it if you could provide feedback with | |
222 regard to it's performance. I am also working with some other people | |
223 at make it operate on Solaris. | |
224 | |
225 A whole load more items are now recognized by the Item records. With | |
226 more items in Emails and Folders. I haven't got to the Contacts yet. | |
227 | |
228 Anyway, this is what I would call a minor feature enhancment and | |
229 bugfix release. | |
230 | |
231 Dave Smith | |
232 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
233 | |
234 LibPST v0.3.3 | |
235 ============= | |
236 | |
237 Fixed several items. Mainly memory leaks. Loads of them! oops.. | |
238 | |
239 I have added a new program, mainly of debugging, which when passed | |
11 | 240 an ID value and a pst file, will extract and decrypt that ID from |
3 | 241 the pst file. I don't see it being a huge attraction, or of much use |
242 to most people, but it is another example of writing an application | |
243 to use the libpst interface. | |
244 | |
245 Another fix was in the reading of the item index. This has hopefully | |
246 now been corrected. The result of this bug was that not all the emails | |
247 in a folder were converted. Hopefully you should have more luck now. | |
248 | |
249 Dave Smith | |
250 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
251 | |
252 LibPST v0.3.2 | |
253 ============= | |
254 | |
255 Quick bugfix release. There was a bug in the decryption of the basic | |
256 encryption that outlook uses. One byte, 0x6c, was incorrectly decrypted | |
257 to 0x6c instead of 0xcd. This release fixes this bug. Sorry... | |
258 | |
259 | |
260 LibPST v0.3.1 | |
261 ============= | |
262 | |
263 Minor improvements. Fixed bug when linking multiple blocks together, | |
264 so now the linking blocks are not "encrypted" when trying to read | |
265 them. | |
266 | |
267 | |
268 LibPST v0.3 | |
269 =========== | |
270 | |
271 A lot of bug fixing has been done for this release. Testing has been | |
272 done on the creation of the files by readpst. Better handling of | |
273 large binaries being extracted from the PST file has been implemented. | |
274 | |
275 Quite a few reports have come in about not being able to compile on | |
276 Darwin. This could be down to using macros with variable parameter | |
277 lists. This has now been changed to use C functions with variable | |
278 parameters. I hope this fixes a lot of problems. | |
279 | |
280 Added support for recreating the folder structure into normal | |
281 directories. For Instance: | |
282 | |
283 Personal Folders | |
284 |-Inbox | |
285 | |-Jokes | |
286 | |-Meetings | |
287 |-Send Items | |
288 | |
289 each folder containing an mbox file with the correct emails for that | |
290 folder. | |
291 | |
292 Dave Smith | |
293 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
294 | |
295 | |
296 LibPST v0.3 beta1 | |
297 ================= | |
298 | |
299 Again, a shed load of enhancements. More work has been done on the | |
300 mime creation. A bug has been fixed that was letting part of the | |
11 | 301 attachments that were created disappear. |
3 | 302 |
303 A major enhancement is that "compressible encryption" support has been | |
304 added. This was an incredibly simple method to use. It is basically a | |
305 ceasar cipher. It has been noted by several users already that the PST | |
306 password that Outlook uses, serves *no purpose*. It is not used to | |
307 encrypt the PST, it is mearly stored there. This means that the | |
308 readpst application is able to convert PST files without knowing the | |
309 password. Microsoft have some explaning to do! | |
310 | |
311 Output files are now not overwritten if they already exist. This means | |
312 that if you have two folders in your PST file named "fred", the first | |
313 one encountered will be named "fred" and the second one will be named | |
314 "fred00000001". As you can see, there is enough room there for many | |
315 duplicate names! | |
316 | |
317 Output filenames are now restricted. Any "/" or "\" characters in the | |
318 name are replaced with "_". If you find that there are any other | |
319 characters that need to be changed, could you please make me aware! | |
320 | |
321 Thanks to Berry Wizard for help with supporting the encryption. | |
322 | |
323 Thanks to Auke Kok, Carolus Walraven and Yogesh Kumar Guatam for providing debugging | |
324 information and testing. | |
325 | |
326 Dave Smith | |
327 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
328 | |
329 | |
330 LibPST v0.2 beta1 | |
331 ================= | |
332 | |
333 Hello once more... | |
334 | |
335 Attachments are now re-created in mime format. The method is very | |
336 crude and could be prone to over generalisation. Please test this | |
337 version, and if attachments are not recreated correctly, please send | |
338 me the email (complete message source) of the original and | |
339 converted. Cheers. | |
340 | |
341 I hope this will work for everyone who uses this program, but reality | |
342 can be very different! | |
343 | |
344 Let us see how it goes... | |
345 | |
346 Dave Smith | |
347 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
348 | |
349 LibPST v0.2 alpha1 | |
350 =========== | |
351 | |
352 Hello! | |
353 | |
354 Some improvements. The internal code has been changed so that | |
355 attachments are now processed and loaded into the structures. The | |
356 readpst program is not finished yet. It needs to convert these binary | |
357 structs into mime data. At present it just saves them to the current | |
358 directory, overwriting any previous files with the attachment name. | |
359 | |
11 | 360 Improvements over previous version: |
3 | 361 * KMail output is supported - if the "-k" flag is specified, all the |
362 directory hierarchy is created using the KMail standard | |
363 * Lots of bugs and memory leaks fixed | |
364 | |
365 | |
366 Usage: | |
367 | |
368 ReadPST v0.2alpha1 implementing LibPST v0.2alpha1 | |
369 Usage: ./readpst [OPTIONS] {PST FILENAME} | |
370 OPTIONS: | |
371 -h - Help. This screen | |
372 -k - KMail. Output in kmail format | |
373 -o - Output Dir. Directory to write files to. CWD is changed *after* opening pst file | |
374 -V - Version. Display program version | |
375 | |
376 If you want to view lots of debug output, modify a line in "define.h" | |
377 from "//#define DEBUG_ALL" to "#define DEBUG_ALL". It would then be | |
378 advisable to pipe all output to a log file: | |
379 | |
380 ./readpst -o out pst_file &> logfile | |
381 | |
382 Dave Smith | |
383 | |
384 LibPST v0.1 | |
385 =========== | |
386 | |
387 Hi Folks! | |
388 | |
389 This has been a long, hard slog, but I now feel that I have got | |
390 somewhere useful. The included program "main" is able to read an | |
391 Outlook PST file and dump the emails into mbox files, separating each | |
392 folder into a different mbox file. All the mbox files are stored in | |
393 the current directory and no attempt is yet made to organise these | |
394 files into a directory hierarchy. This would not be too difficult to | |
395 achieve though. | |
396 | |
397 Email attachments are not yet handled, neither are Contacts. | |
398 | |
399 There is no pretty interface yet, but you can convert a PST file in | |
400 the following manner | |
401 | |
402 ./main {path to PST file} | |
403 | |
404 This is very much a work in progress, but I thought I should release | |
405 this code so that people can lose their conception that outlook files | |
406 will never be converted to Linux. | |
407 | |
408 I am intending that the code I am writing will be developed into | |
409 greater applications to provide USEFUL tools for accessing and | |
410 converting PST files into a variety of formats. | |
411 | |
412 One point I feel I should make is that Outlook, by default, creates | |
413 "Compressible Encryption" PST files. I have not, as yet, attempted to | |
414 write any decryption routines, so you will not be able to convert | |
415 these files. However, if you create a new PST file and choose not to | |
416 make an encrypted one, you can copy all your emails into this new one | |
417 and then convert the unencrypted one. | |
418 | |
419 I hope you enjoy, | |
420 | |
421 Dave Smith | |
422 | |
423 : vim: set tw=72 sw=4 ts=4: |