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1 RFC reference:
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2 RFC 1341 - base64 Mime encoding and layout of mime headers
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3 RFC 2183 - Content-Disposition for describing email attachments
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4 RFC 2426 - vCard definition (for saving contacts)
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6 LibPST v0.5
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7 ===========
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9 It is with GREAT relief that I bring you version 0.5 of the LibPST tools!
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11 Through great difficulties, this tool has survived and expanded to become even
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12 better.
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14 The changes are as follows:
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15 * RTF support. We can now decompress RTF bodies in emails, and are saved as attachments
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16 * Better support in reading the indexes. Fixed many bugs with them
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17 * Improved reliability. "Now we are getting somewhere!"
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18 * Improved compiling. Hopefully we won't be hitting too many compile errors now.
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19 * vCard handling. Contacts are now exported as vCard entries.
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20 * vEvent handling. Support has begun on exporting Calendar entries as events
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21 * Support for Journal entries has also begun
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23 If you have any problems with this release, don't hesitate to contact me.
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24
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25 These changes come to you, as always, free under the GPL license!! What a wonderful
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26 thing it is. It does mean that you can write your own program off of this library
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27 and distribute it also for free. However, anyone with commercial interests for
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28 developing applications they will be charging for are encouraged to get in touch
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29 with me, as I am sure we can come to some arrangement.
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31 Dave Smith
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32 <dave.s@earthcorp.com>
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33
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34 LibPST v0.4.3
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35 =============
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36
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37 Bug fix release. No extra functionality
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39 Dave Smith
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40 <dave.s@earthcorp.com>
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42 LibPST v0.4.2
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43 =============
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44
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45 The debug system has had an overhaul. The debug messages are no longer
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46 printed to the screen when they are enabled. They are dumped to a
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47 binary file. There is another utility called "readlog" that I have
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48 written to handle these log files. It should make it easier to
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49 selectively view bits of a log file. It also shows the position that
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50 the log message was printed from.
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52 There is a new switch in readpst. It is -d. It enables the user to
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53 specify the log file which the binary log is written to. If the switch
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54 isn't used, the default file of "readpst.log" is used.
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56 The code is now Visual C++ compatible. It has compiled on Visual C++
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57 .net Standard edition, and produces the readpst.exe file. Use the project
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58 file included in this distribution.
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59
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60 There have been minor improvements elsewhere too.
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63 LibPST v0.4.1
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64 =============
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65
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66 Fixed a couple more bugs. Is it me or do bugs just insert themselves
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67 in random, hard to find places!
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69 Cured a few problems with regard to emails with multiple embeded
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70 items. They are not fully re-created using Mime-types, but are
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71 accessible with the -S switch (which saves everything as seperate
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72 items)
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74 Fixed a problem reading the first index. Back sliders are now
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75 detected. (ie when the value following the current one is smaller, not
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76 bigger!)
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78 Added some error messages when we try and read outside of the PST
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79 file, this was causing a few problems before, cause the return value
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80 wasn't always checked, so it was possible to be reading random data,
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81 and trying to make sense of it!
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83 Anyway, if you find any problems, don't hesitate to mail me
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85 Dave Smith
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86 <dave.s@earthcorp.com>
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88 LibPST v0.4
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89 ===========
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91 Fixed a nasty bug that occasionally corrupted attachments. Another bug
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92 with regard to reading of indexes (also occasional).
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94 Another output method has been added which is called "Seperate". It is
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95 activated with the -S switch. It operates in the following manor:
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97 |--Inbox-->000000
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98 | 000001
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99 | 000002
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101 | 0000001
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102 | 0000002
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104 All the emails are stored in seperate files counting from 0 upwards,
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105 in a folder named as the PST folder.
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107 When an email has an attachment, it is saved as a seperate file. The
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108 filename for the attachment is made up of 2 parts, the first is the
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109 email number to which it belongs, the second is its filename.
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111 The should now be runnable on big-endian machines, if the define.h
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112 file is first modified. The #define LITTLE_ENDIAN must be commented
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113 out, and the #define BIG_ENDIAN must be uncommented.
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115 More verbose error messages have been added. Apparently people got
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116 confused when the program stopped for no visible reason. This has now
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117 been resolved.
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118
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119 Thanks for the continued support of all people involved.
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121 Dave Smith
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122 <dave.s@earthcorp.com>
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124 Libpst v0.3.4
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126
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127 Several more fixes. An Infinite loop and incorrect interpreting of
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128 item index attributes. Work has started on making the code executable
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129 on big endian CPUs. At present it should work with Linux on these
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130 CPUs, but I would appreciate it if you could provide feedback with
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131 regard to it's performance. I am also working with some other people
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132 at make it operate on Solaris.
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133
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134 A whole load more items are now recognized by the Item records. With
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135 more items in Emails and Folders. I haven't got to the Contacts yet.
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136
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137 Anyway, this is what I would call a minor feature enhancment and
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138 bugfix release.
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140 Dave Smith
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142
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143 LibPST v0.3.3
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146 Fixed several items. Mainly memory leaks. Loads of them! oops..
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148 I have added a new program, mainly of debugging, which when passed
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149 an ID value and a pst file, will extract and decrypt that ID from
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150 the pst file. I don't see it being a huge attraction, or of much use
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151 to most people, but it is another example of writing an application
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152 to use the libpst interface.
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153
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154 Another fix was in the reading of the item index. This has hopefully
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155 now been corrected. The result of this bug was that not all the emails
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156 in a folder were converted. Hopefully you should have more luck now.
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158 Dave Smith
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159 <dave.s@earthcorp.com>
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161 LibPST v0.3.2
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162 =============
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163
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164 Quick bugfix release. There was a bug in the decryption of the basic
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165 encryption that outlook uses. One byte, 0x6c, was incorrectly decrypted
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166 to 0x6c instead of 0xcd. This release fixes this bug. Sorry...
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169 LibPST v0.3.1
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172 Minor improvements. Fixed bug when linking multiple blocks together,
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173 so now the linking blocks are not "encrypted" when trying to read
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174 them.
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177 LibPST v0.3
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179
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180 A lot of bug fixing has been done for this release. Testing has been
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181 done on the creation of the files by readpst. Better handling of
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182 large binaries being extracted from the PST file has been implemented.
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183
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184 Quite a few reports have come in about not being able to compile on
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185 Darwin. This could be down to using macros with variable parameter
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186 lists. This has now been changed to use C functions with variable
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187 parameters. I hope this fixes a lot of problems.
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188
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189 Added support for recreating the folder structure into normal
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190 directories. For Instance:
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191
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192 Personal Folders
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193 |-Inbox
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194 | |-Jokes
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195 | |-Meetings
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196 |-Send Items
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197
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198 each folder containing an mbox file with the correct emails for that
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199 folder.
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201 Dave Smith
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205 LibPST v0.3 beta1
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206 =================
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207
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208 Again, a shed load of enhancements. More work has been done on the
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209 mime creation. A bug has been fixed that was letting part of the
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210 attachments that were created disappear.
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211
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212 A major enhancement is that "compressible encryption" support has been
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213 added. This was an incredibly simple method to use. It is basically a
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214 ceasar cipher. It has been noted by several users already that the PST
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215 password that Outlook uses, serves *no purpose*. It is not used to
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216 encrypt the PST, it is mearly stored there. This means that the
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217 readpst application is able to convert PST files without knowing the
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218 password. Microsoft have some explaning to do!
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220 Output files are now not overwritten if they already exist. This means
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221 that if you have two folders in your PST file named "fred", the first
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222 one encountered will be named "fred" and the second one will be named
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223 "fred00000001". As you can see, there is enough room there for many
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224 duplicate names!
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226 Output filenames are now restricted. Any "/" or "\" characters in the
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227 name are replaced with "_". If you find that there are any other
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228 characters that need to be changed, could you please make me aware!
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229
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230 Thanks to Berry Wizard for help with supporting the encryption.
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232 Thanks to Auke Kok, Carolus Walraven and Yogesh Kumar Guatam for providing debugging
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233 information and testing.
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234
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235 Dave Smith
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236 <dave.s@earthcorp.com>
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239 LibPST v0.2 beta1
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240 =================
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241
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242 Hello once more...
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243
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244 Attachments are now re-created in mime format. The method is very
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245 crude and could be prone to over generalisation. Please test this
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246 version, and if attachments are not recreated correctly, please send
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247 me the email (complete message source) of the original and
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248 converted. Cheers.
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249
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250 I hope this will work for everyone who uses this program, but reality
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251 can be very different!
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252
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253 Let us see how it goes...
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255 Dave Smith
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256 <dave.s@earthcorp.com>
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258 LibPST v0.2 alpha1
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259 ===========
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260
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261 Hello!
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262
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263 Some improvements. The internal code has been changed so that
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264 attachments are now processed and loaded into the structures. The
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265 readpst program is not finished yet. It needs to convert these binary
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266 structs into mime data. At present it just saves them to the current
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267 directory, overwriting any previous files with the attachment name.
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268
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269 Improvements over previous version:
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270 * KMail output is supported - if the "-k" flag is specified, all the
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271 directory hierarchy is created using the KMail standard
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272 * Lots of bugs and memory leaks fixed
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275 Usage:
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277 ReadPST v0.2alpha1 implementing LibPST v0.2alpha1
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278 Usage: ./readpst [OPTIONS] {PST FILENAME}
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279 OPTIONS:
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280 -h - Help. This screen
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281 -k - KMail. Output in kmail format
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282 -o - Output Dir. Directory to write files to. CWD is changed *after* opening pst file
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283 -V - Version. Display program version
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285 If you want to view lots of debug output, modify a line in "define.h"
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286 from "//#define DEBUG_ALL" to "#define DEBUG_ALL". It would then be
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287 advisable to pipe all output to a log file:
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288
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289 ./readpst -o out pst_file &> logfile
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293 LibPST v0.1
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296 Hi Folks!
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297
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298 This has been a long, hard slog, but I now feel that I have got
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299 somewhere useful. The included program "main" is able to read an
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300 Outlook PST file and dump the emails into mbox files, separating each
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301 folder into a different mbox file. All the mbox files are stored in
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302 the current directory and no attempt is yet made to organise these
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303 files into a directory hierarchy. This would not be too difficult to
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304 achieve though.
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306 Email attachments are not yet handled, neither are Contacts.
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308 There is no pretty interface yet, but you can convert a PST file in
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309 the following manner
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311 ./main {path to PST file}
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313 This is very much a work in progress, but I thought I should release
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314 this code so that people can lose their conception that outlook files
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315 will never be converted to Linux.
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317 I am intending that the code I am writing will be developed into
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318 greater applications to provide USEFUL tools for accessing and
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319 converting PST files into a variety of formats.
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321 One point I feel I should make is that Outlook, by default, creates
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322 "Compressible Encryption" PST files. I have not, as yet, attempted to
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323 write any decryption routines, so you will not be able to convert
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324 these files. However, if you create a new PST file and choose not to
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325 make an encrypted one, you can copy all your emails into this new one
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326 and then convert the unencrypted one.
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328 I hope you enjoy,
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330 Dave Smith