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