go-pst

A fast library for reading PST, OST and PAB files in Go (Golang).

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The PFF (Personal Folder File) and OFF (Offline Folder File) format is used to store Microsoft Outlook e-mails, appointments and contacts. The PST (Personal Storage Table), OST (Offline Storage Table) and PAB (Personal Address Book) file format consist of the PFF format.

Goals

• Support PST, OST and PAB files
• Provide a reliable built-in parser
• Be asynchronous and event-driven
• Have a well documented API
• Understand encrypted files
  • On by default with newer versions of Outlook
• Extract as much data as possible
• Quickly retrieve messages by their identifiers
• Flexible storage system
• Learn a lot and have fun

Usage

Example

Documentation

• go-pst API
• File format specification

Motivation

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Versioning

go-pst will be maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible.
API releases will be numbered with the following format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

And constructed with the following guidelines:

• Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major
• New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor
• Bug fixes and misc changes bump the patch

For more information on SemVer, please visit: https://semver.org/

Issues

Feel free to submit any issues or feature requests here.

References

• java-libpst
• libpff

License

MIT