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annotate ChangeLog @ 28:51d826f31329
more cleanup from Arne, document 7c block format
| author | carl |
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| date | Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:03:45 -0800 |
| parents | f4643b609bdf |
| children | 45eccad4b606 |
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| 24 | 1 LibPST 0.5.3 (2006-02-20) |
| 16 | 2 =============================== |
| 3 | |
| 24 | 4 * switch to gnu autoconf/automake. This breaks the MS VC++ projects |
| 5 since the source code is now in the src subdirectory. | |
| 6 | |
| 16 | 7 * documentation switched to xml, building man pages and html |
| 8 from the master xml copy. | |
| 9 | |
| 24 | 10 * include rpm .spec file for building src and binary rpms. |
| 11 | |
| 16 | 12 |
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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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13 LibPST 0.5.2 (2006-02-18) |
| 11 | 14 =============================== |
| 15 | |
| 16 * Added pst2ldif to convert the contacts to ldif format for import | |
| 17 into ldap databases. | |
| 18 | |
| 19 * Major changes to libpst.c to properly use the node depth values | |
| 20 from the b-tree nodes. We also use the item count values in the nodes | |
| 21 rather than trying to guess how many items are active. | |
| 22 | |
| 23 * Cleanup whitespace - using tabs for every four columns. | |
| 24 | |
| 25 | |
| 3 | 26 LibPST 0.5.1 (17 November 2004) |
| 27 =============================== | |
| 28 | |
| 29 Well, alot has happened since the last release of libpst. | |
| 30 | |
| 31 Release / Management: | |
| 32 | |
| 11 | 33 * The project has forked! The new maintainer is Joseph Nahmias. |
| 34 * We have changed hosting sites, thanks to sourceforge for hosting | |
| 35 to this point. From this point forward we will be using | |
| 36 alioth.debian.org. | |
| 37 * The project is now using SubVersioN for source control. You can | |
| 38 get the latest code by running: | |
| 39 svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/libpst/trunk . | |
| 40 * See | |
| 41 <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libpst-devel/2004-November/000000.html> | |
| 42 for more information. | |
| 3 | 43 |
| 44 Code Changes: | |
| 45 | |
| 11 | 46 * Added lspst program to list items in a PST. Still incomplete. |
| 47 * Added vim folding markers to readpst.c | |
| 48 * avoid the pseudo-prologue that MS prepends to the email headers | |
| 49 * fix build on msvc, since it doesn't have sys/param.h | |
| 50 * Re-vamped Makefile: | |
| 51 * Only define CFLAGS in Makefileif missing | |
| 52 * fixed {un,}install targets in Makefile | |
| 53 * Fixed up build process in Makefile | |
| 54 * Added mozilla conversion script from David Binard | |
| 55 * Fixed bogus creation of readpst.log on every invocation | |
| 56 * escaped dashes and apostrophe in manpages | |
| 57 * Updated TODO | |
| 58 * added manpages from debian pkg | |
| 59 * fix escaped-string length count to consider '\n', | |
| 60 thanks to Paul Bakker <bakker@fox-it.com>. | |
| 61 * ensure there's a blank line between header and body | |
| 62 patch from <johnh@aproposretail.com> (SourceForge #890745). | |
| 63 * Apply accumulated endian-related patches | |
| 64 * Removed unused files, upstream's debian/ dir | |
| 3 | 65 |
| 66 -- Joe Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> | |
| 67 | |
| 68 LibPST v0.5 | |
| 69 =========== | |
| 70 | |
| 71 It is with GREAT relief that I bring you version 0.5 of the LibPST tools! | |
| 72 | |
| 73 Through great difficulties, this tool has survived and expanded to become even | |
| 74 better. | |
| 75 | |
| 76 The changes are as follows: | |
| 77 * RTF support. We can now decompress RTF bodies in emails, and are saved as attachments | |
| 78 * Better support in reading the indexes. Fixed many bugs with them | |
| 79 * Improved reliability. "Now we are getting somewhere!" | |
| 80 * Improved compiling. Hopefully we won't be hitting too many compile errors now. | |
| 81 * vCard handling. Contacts are now exported as vCard entries. | |
| 82 * vEvent handling. Support has begun on exporting Calendar entries as events | |
| 83 * Support for Journal entries has also begun | |
| 84 | |
| 85 If you have any problems with this release, don't hesitate to contact me. | |
| 86 | |
| 87 These changes come to you, as always, free under the GPL license!! What a wonderful | |
| 88 thing it is. It does mean that you can write your own program off of this library | |
| 89 and distribute it also for free. However, anyone with commercial interests for | |
| 90 developing applications they will be charging for are encouraged to get in touch | |
| 91 with me, as I am sure we can come to some arrangement. | |
| 92 | |
| 93 Dave Smith | |
| 94 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 95 | |
| 96 LibPST v0.4.3 | |
| 97 ============= | |
| 98 | |
| 99 Bug fix release. No extra functionality | |
| 100 | |
| 101 Dave Smith | |
| 102 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 103 | |
| 104 LibPST v0.4.2 | |
| 105 ============= | |
| 106 | |
| 107 The debug system has had an overhaul. The debug messages are no longer | |
| 108 printed to the screen when they are enabled. They are dumped to a | |
| 109 binary file. There is another utility called "readlog" that I have | |
| 110 written to handle these log files. It should make it easier to | |
| 111 selectively view bits of a log file. It also shows the position that | |
| 112 the log message was printed from. | |
| 113 | |
| 114 There is a new switch in readpst. It is -d. It enables the user to | |
| 115 specify the log file which the binary log is written to. If the switch | |
| 116 isn't used, the default file of "readpst.log" is used. | |
| 117 | |
| 118 The code is now Visual C++ compatible. It has compiled on Visual C++ | |
| 119 .net Standard edition, and produces the readpst.exe file. Use the project | |
| 120 file included in this distribution. | |
| 121 | |
| 122 There have been minor improvements elsewhere too. | |
| 123 | |
| 124 | |
| 125 LibPST v0.4.1 | |
| 126 ============= | |
| 127 | |
| 128 Fixed a couple more bugs. Is it me or do bugs just insert themselves | |
| 129 in random, hard to find places! | |
| 130 | |
| 131 Cured a few problems with regard to emails with multiple embeded | |
| 132 items. They are not fully re-created using Mime-types, but are | |
| 133 accessible with the -S switch (which saves everything as seperate | |
| 134 items) | |
| 135 | |
| 136 Fixed a problem reading the first index. Back sliders are now | |
| 137 detected. (ie when the value following the current one is smaller, not | |
| 138 bigger!) | |
| 139 | |
| 140 Added some error messages when we try and read outside of the PST | |
| 141 file, this was causing a few problems before, cause the return value | |
| 142 wasn't always checked, so it was possible to be reading random data, | |
| 143 and trying to make sense of it! | |
| 144 | |
| 145 Anyway, if you find any problems, don't hesitate to mail me | |
| 146 | |
| 147 Dave Smith | |
| 148 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 149 | |
| 150 LibPST v0.4 | |
| 151 =========== | |
| 152 | |
| 153 Fixed a nasty bug that occasionally corrupted attachments. Another bug | |
| 154 with regard to reading of indexes (also occasional). | |
| 155 | |
| 156 Another output method has been added which is called "Seperate". It is | |
| 157 activated with the -S switch. It operates in the following manor: | |
| 158 | |
| 159 |--Inbox-->000000 | |
| 11 | 160 | 000001 |
| 161 | 000002 | |
| 3 | 162 |--Sentmail-->0000000 |
| 11 | 163 | 0000001 |
| 164 | 0000002 | |
| 3 | 165 |
| 166 All the emails are stored in seperate files counting from 0 upwards, | |
| 167 in a folder named as the PST folder. | |
| 168 | |
| 169 When an email has an attachment, it is saved as a seperate file. The | |
| 170 filename for the attachment is made up of 2 parts, the first is the | |
| 171 email number to which it belongs, the second is its filename. | |
| 172 | |
| 173 The should now be runnable on big-endian machines, if the define.h | |
| 174 file is first modified. The #define LITTLE_ENDIAN must be commented | |
| 175 out, and the #define BIG_ENDIAN must be uncommented. | |
| 176 | |
| 177 More verbose error messages have been added. Apparently people got | |
| 178 confused when the program stopped for no visible reason. This has now | |
| 179 been resolved. | |
| 180 | |
| 181 Thanks for the continued support of all people involved. | |
| 182 | |
| 183 Dave Smith | |
| 184 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 185 | |
| 186 Libpst v0.3.4 | |
| 187 ============= | |
| 188 | |
| 189 Several more fixes. An Infinite loop and incorrect interpreting of | |
| 190 item index attributes. Work has started on making the code executable | |
| 191 on big endian CPUs. At present it should work with Linux on these | |
| 192 CPUs, but I would appreciate it if you could provide feedback with | |
| 193 regard to it's performance. I am also working with some other people | |
| 194 at make it operate on Solaris. | |
| 195 | |
| 196 A whole load more items are now recognized by the Item records. With | |
| 197 more items in Emails and Folders. I haven't got to the Contacts yet. | |
| 198 | |
| 199 Anyway, this is what I would call a minor feature enhancment and | |
| 200 bugfix release. | |
| 201 | |
| 202 Dave Smith | |
| 203 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 204 | |
| 205 LibPST v0.3.3 | |
| 206 ============= | |
| 207 | |
| 208 Fixed several items. Mainly memory leaks. Loads of them! oops.. | |
| 209 | |
| 210 I have added a new program, mainly of debugging, which when passed | |
| 11 | 211 an ID value and a pst file, will extract and decrypt that ID from |
| 3 | 212 the pst file. I don't see it being a huge attraction, or of much use |
| 213 to most people, but it is another example of writing an application | |
| 214 to use the libpst interface. | |
| 215 | |
| 216 Another fix was in the reading of the item index. This has hopefully | |
| 217 now been corrected. The result of this bug was that not all the emails | |
| 218 in a folder were converted. Hopefully you should have more luck now. | |
| 219 | |
| 220 Dave Smith | |
| 221 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 222 | |
| 223 LibPST v0.3.2 | |
| 224 ============= | |
| 225 | |
| 226 Quick bugfix release. There was a bug in the decryption of the basic | |
| 227 encryption that outlook uses. One byte, 0x6c, was incorrectly decrypted | |
| 228 to 0x6c instead of 0xcd. This release fixes this bug. Sorry... | |
| 229 | |
| 230 | |
| 231 LibPST v0.3.1 | |
| 232 ============= | |
| 233 | |
| 234 Minor improvements. Fixed bug when linking multiple blocks together, | |
| 235 so now the linking blocks are not "encrypted" when trying to read | |
| 236 them. | |
| 237 | |
| 238 | |
| 239 LibPST v0.3 | |
| 240 =========== | |
| 241 | |
| 242 A lot of bug fixing has been done for this release. Testing has been | |
| 243 done on the creation of the files by readpst. Better handling of | |
| 244 large binaries being extracted from the PST file has been implemented. | |
| 245 | |
| 246 Quite a few reports have come in about not being able to compile on | |
| 247 Darwin. This could be down to using macros with variable parameter | |
| 248 lists. This has now been changed to use C functions with variable | |
| 249 parameters. I hope this fixes a lot of problems. | |
| 250 | |
| 251 Added support for recreating the folder structure into normal | |
| 252 directories. For Instance: | |
| 253 | |
| 254 Personal Folders | |
| 255 |-Inbox | |
| 256 | |-Jokes | |
| 257 | |-Meetings | |
| 258 |-Send Items | |
| 259 | |
| 260 each folder containing an mbox file with the correct emails for that | |
| 261 folder. | |
| 262 | |
| 263 Dave Smith | |
| 264 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 265 | |
| 266 | |
| 267 LibPST v0.3 beta1 | |
| 268 ================= | |
| 269 | |
| 270 Again, a shed load of enhancements. More work has been done on the | |
| 271 mime creation. A bug has been fixed that was letting part of the | |
| 11 | 272 attachments that were created disappear. |
| 3 | 273 |
| 274 A major enhancement is that "compressible encryption" support has been | |
| 275 added. This was an incredibly simple method to use. It is basically a | |
| 276 ceasar cipher. It has been noted by several users already that the PST | |
| 277 password that Outlook uses, serves *no purpose*. It is not used to | |
| 278 encrypt the PST, it is mearly stored there. This means that the | |
| 279 readpst application is able to convert PST files without knowing the | |
| 280 password. Microsoft have some explaning to do! | |
| 281 | |
| 282 Output files are now not overwritten if they already exist. This means | |
| 283 that if you have two folders in your PST file named "fred", the first | |
| 284 one encountered will be named "fred" and the second one will be named | |
| 285 "fred00000001". As you can see, there is enough room there for many | |
| 286 duplicate names! | |
| 287 | |
| 288 Output filenames are now restricted. Any "/" or "\" characters in the | |
| 289 name are replaced with "_". If you find that there are any other | |
| 290 characters that need to be changed, could you please make me aware! | |
| 291 | |
| 292 Thanks to Berry Wizard for help with supporting the encryption. | |
| 293 | |
| 294 Thanks to Auke Kok, Carolus Walraven and Yogesh Kumar Guatam for providing debugging | |
| 295 information and testing. | |
| 296 | |
| 297 Dave Smith | |
| 298 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 299 | |
| 300 | |
| 301 LibPST v0.2 beta1 | |
| 302 ================= | |
| 303 | |
| 304 Hello once more... | |
| 305 | |
| 306 Attachments are now re-created in mime format. The method is very | |
| 307 crude and could be prone to over generalisation. Please test this | |
| 308 version, and if attachments are not recreated correctly, please send | |
| 309 me the email (complete message source) of the original and | |
| 310 converted. Cheers. | |
| 311 | |
| 312 I hope this will work for everyone who uses this program, but reality | |
| 313 can be very different! | |
| 314 | |
| 315 Let us see how it goes... | |
| 316 | |
| 317 Dave Smith | |
| 318 <dave.s@earthcorp.com> | |
| 319 | |
| 320 LibPST v0.2 alpha1 | |
| 321 =========== | |
| 322 | |
| 323 Hello! | |
| 324 | |
| 325 Some improvements. The internal code has been changed so that | |
| 326 attachments are now processed and loaded into the structures. The | |
| 327 readpst program is not finished yet. It needs to convert these binary | |
| 328 structs into mime data. At present it just saves them to the current | |
| 329 directory, overwriting any previous files with the attachment name. | |
| 330 | |
| 11 | 331 Improvements over previous version: |
| 3 | 332 * KMail output is supported - if the "-k" flag is specified, all the |
| 333 directory hierarchy is created using the KMail standard | |
| 334 * Lots of bugs and memory leaks fixed | |
| 335 | |
| 336 | |
| 337 Usage: | |
| 338 | |
| 339 ReadPST v0.2alpha1 implementing LibPST v0.2alpha1 | |
| 340 Usage: ./readpst [OPTIONS] {PST FILENAME} | |
| 341 OPTIONS: | |
| 342 -h - Help. This screen | |
| 343 -k - KMail. Output in kmail format | |
| 344 -o - Output Dir. Directory to write files to. CWD is changed *after* opening pst file | |
| 345 -V - Version. Display program version | |
| 346 | |
| 347 If you want to view lots of debug output, modify a line in "define.h" | |
| 348 from "//#define DEBUG_ALL" to "#define DEBUG_ALL". It would then be | |
| 349 advisable to pipe all output to a log file: | |
| 350 | |
| 351 ./readpst -o out pst_file &> logfile | |
| 352 | |
| 353 Dave Smith | |
| 354 | |
| 355 LibPST v0.1 | |
| 356 =========== | |
| 357 | |
| 358 Hi Folks! | |
| 359 | |
| 360 This has been a long, hard slog, but I now feel that I have got | |
| 361 somewhere useful. The included program "main" is able to read an | |
| 362 Outlook PST file and dump the emails into mbox files, separating each | |
| 363 folder into a different mbox file. All the mbox files are stored in | |
| 364 the current directory and no attempt is yet made to organise these | |
| 365 files into a directory hierarchy. This would not be too difficult to | |
| 366 achieve though. | |
| 367 | |
| 368 Email attachments are not yet handled, neither are Contacts. | |
| 369 | |
| 370 There is no pretty interface yet, but you can convert a PST file in | |
| 371 the following manner | |
| 372 | |
| 373 ./main {path to PST file} | |
| 374 | |
| 375 This is very much a work in progress, but I thought I should release | |
| 376 this code so that people can lose their conception that outlook files | |
| 377 will never be converted to Linux. | |
| 378 | |
| 379 I am intending that the code I am writing will be developed into | |
| 380 greater applications to provide USEFUL tools for accessing and | |
| 381 converting PST files into a variety of formats. | |
| 382 | |
| 383 One point I feel I should make is that Outlook, by default, creates | |
| 384 "Compressible Encryption" PST files. I have not, as yet, attempted to | |
| 385 write any decryption routines, so you will not be able to convert | |
| 386 these files. However, if you create a new PST file and choose not to | |
| 387 make an encrypted one, you can copy all your emails into this new one | |
| 388 and then convert the unencrypted one. | |
| 389 | |
| 390 I hope you enjoy, | |
| 391 | |
| 392 Dave Smith | |
| 393 | |
| 394 : vim: set tw=72 sw=4 ts=4: |