[Libpst-devel] Working on Outlook 2003 64-bit support

[Sean Loaring]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:17:57PM -0400, Matt L wrote:
> Sean,
> 
> I have been monitoring this list for awhile, waiting for someone like you to
> come along and make a push toward 2003 support.  Thanks for your valuable
> contributions so far.
> 
> I can provide Outlook 2003 PSTs for testing purposes.  If no one has
> responded to your request, I'd be glad to.
> 
> FWIW, I compiled your latest tarball under cygwin on Windows and tried to
> run it against an English-language 2003 PST.  The results were mixed - it
> successfully detected the folder structure (although the outputted names
> were gibberish) and identified the correct number of items in each, but it
> did not extract anything (each folder's MIME file was empty).  I realized
> that cygwin doesn't fully support unicode, so I compiled on my Mac OS X
> laptop.  The output was similar, but the folder names appeared as Asian
> characters, where they should have been English text.
> 
> I'm no C/iconv guru, but I'd be glad to assist in any way possible.  I work
> in the computer forensics industry and I shoube able to devote some work
> hours to this project.
> 
> Matt

Sounds good.  It's been hard to get anywhere without having decent
datasets.

I'm away from home for the next few weeks and am unable to do anything
with libpst until I get back.  I'll send another message when I get
back.

Sean