How to display the contents of the .OST file????

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nagamohan_p - 04 Oct 2006 17:17 GMT

Hi,

I wish to display the all the items (Appointments, Calendar, Folders, Email,
Tasks, etc.) by reading the raw data of the OST File...That means I don't
wish to use installing outlook, MAPI, CDO and even third Party tools.

Please suggest me where I will get the source code for reading the raw data
of the OST file or documents related to OST file structure or else Conversion
of OST file to PST file...I'm eagerly waiting for ur response....

Regards,
nag.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 04 Oct 2006 17:25 GMT

Microsoft has no publicly available documentation for the structure of .ost or .pst files.

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nagamohan_p - 05 Oct 2006 17:44 GMT

Hi Mosher,

I'm thankful for ur prompt response...For reading PST file, I have seen
Libpst...Just for testing, I tried OST file with this, but no use...

Coming OST file to PST file conversion, I have seen ost2pst tool, but I'm
unable to find source code for conversion of OST file to PST file...

Regards,
nag.

> Microsoft has no publicly available documentation for the structure of ..ost or .pst files.
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Oct 2006 17:50 GMT

There is no published source code for that, to my knowledge. As I said, these are undocumented file formats.

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