Re: [Sheflug] Microsoft Outlook to Redhat 9 Mozilla

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:47 +0000, Lesley Anne Binks wrote:
> I actually wrote an app to decode Outlook mail boxes and provide an
> import function for a mail client.  This was  few years ago.

That's quite interesting. I know from past experiences that Outlook
mailboxes (.pst files?) are very brittle. Microsoft provided a tool
(with Office, I think) called the "Mailbox Repair Tool" or somesuch -
and I don't know how much corruption this tool would expect, but you
could feed it *any* file and it would turn it into a valid Outlook
mailbox. That suggests to me that there isn't really much error checking
or data validation that you can reasonably do with these files :(

Cheers,

Alex.

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