pstsdk

pstsdk is a library for reading PST-format email archives. It currently supports little-endian systems with modern C++ compilers. This fork continues from the trunk dir in the original CodePlex dump from the upstream repo.

Important Links:

• Doxygen
• MS-PST - PST Spec v20100627
• Misc original docs/issues /doc

This is a fork with the following changes:

• Build with -std=c++17
• mapitags.h from WINE

Building

Windows

choco install cmake ninja make boost-msvc-14.3 -y
make

macOS

pstsdk can be built using the default clang distribution shipped with Xcode. Install libiconv and boost from brew, then make.

brew install boost libiconv
make

Linux

Ubuntu

apt-get install -y build-essential cmake ninja-build libboost-all-dev
make

Running the unit tests

You can run the unit tests as follows:

CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=1 make test

The unit tests should pass on all supported platforms.

Credits

• Terry Mahaffey - Original author of pstsdk
• Jon Griffiths & WINE - mapitags.h header file
• Julien Kerihuel & OpenChange - mapi-named-properties

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.

Note: mapitags.h and mapi-named-properties are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1+.