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Other (closed) formats, and address-books (Score:1)
I had a quick look at the docs and this looks like a very interesting project.
Speaking as someone trying to move away from Win2K+Outlook to something more open, a series of modules that could read (and later write, or use as transport) to Outlook 2000 under Windows would be a great help (I think you'd have to use OLE Automation calls as the PST file format isn't documented). This would be great for opening up a very common but surprisingly closed mail system (Outlook talking to Exchange is another similar
Re:Other (closed) formats, and address-books (Score:1)
One project which you might want to have a look at is the conversion of Outlook and Outlook Express data files to the MBOX format - The flagship of this project is LibPST which provides direct access to Outlook PST files (without the requirement for OLE automation).
The sourceforge page for this project is http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox [sourceforge.net]
Re:Other (closed) formats, and address-books (Score:1)
Cheers, I've been looking at this [active-com.de] program written by a German bloke that does a nice UI for exporting Outlook messages to folders, but I'll certainly have a look at the other one you mention too.
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