[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-623) Add support for Outlook PST

["Mark Kerzner (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mark Kerzner commented on TIKA-623:
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Hi, everybody,

I have forked Richard Johnson's java-libpst project here on GitHub https://github.com/markkerzner/JavaLibpst. My reasons for doing this are as follows:

1. I need java-libpst parsing capabilities for my FreeEed project https://github.com/markkerzner/FreeEed
2. I want it in Maven, for FreeEed's purposes, and later on I would be happy to see it included in Tika, which also needs it in Maven;
3. I want it in active development, and Richard told me that he has less time for it than before.
4. By no means do I want to take the glory or the project away from Richard, but it is one of the keys for FreeEed's adoption in Windows.

I am in touch with Richard on all that, but I want the community feedback. Should I continue? Should I bring it into some Maven repository? I have been working with Carl Byington and know his libpst somewhat, so that additional qualification should help. Therefore, please, how am I to proceed?

Thank you.


                
> Add support for Outlook PST
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-623
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-623
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: parser
>            Reporter: Tran Nam Quang
>         Attachments: OutlookPSTParser.java
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> As you might know, Outlook stores its mails and other stuff in a single PST file. There's a relatively new Java library called java-libpst for reading Outlook PST files. It is licensed under the LGPL and available over here: http://code.google.com/p/java-libpst/
> I have tested the library on Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003, with good results. It would be great if the library could be integrated into Tika.
> Best regards
> Tran Nam Quang

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