Who wants to help me reverse-engineer the MS Outlook .pst file format?
Failing that, any suggestions for good cross-platform address book apps that print nicely like Outlook does so well?
Nicely?
Dom2 on 2002-11-22T16:35:33
Outlook has the worst printing I've ever seen. I spent *months* trying (and failing) to convince it that I wanted my mail printed in courier, not what it was sent in.
It's evil, evil I tell you.
-Dom
Re:Nicely?
petdance on 2002-11-22T16:45:38
I've never used Outlook for mail. I do love it as an address book, though.
Re:Nicely?
Dom2 on 2002-11-22T17:06:47
Sorry, I missed that part. I have a funny feeling that it probably works quite well as a PIM, but I just had it thrust upon me as an email client. I have now vowed to never work for a company that requires me to use Outlook again, anyway.
-Dom
Mail::Box::Outlook
inkdroid on 2002-11-26T15:29:27
A Mail::Box::Outlook perhaps?
I found a perlmonks entry
on how to get quick and dirty access to .pst files via Sarathy's Win32::OLE.
Spaces is attempting same
esinclai on 2002-11-27T21:55:03
Andy, you might look at Diego Duval's Spaces project ( http://www.dynamicobjects.com ), as he's been working on imports from
.pst as well.
He hasn't opened his code yet, but apparently is planning to do so at least for some of his components. More info on THAT topic should be in archives of his mailing list.
libPST
petdance on 2002-11-27T22:08:24
Thanks for the pointer, Eric. Spaces is an all-Java project, but I poked around some more and found this
piece by Jon Udell which pointed me at a library called
libPST. That looks mighty promising.
