NAME¶

pffexport — exports items stored in a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST)

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

pffexport is a utility to export items stored in a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST)

pffexport is part of the libpff package. libpff is a library to access the Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST) format

source is the source file.

The options are as follows:

-c codepage

specify the codepage of ASCII strings, options: ascii, windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252 (default), windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258

-d

dumps the item values in a separate file: ItemValues.txt

-f format

specify the preferred output format, options: all, html, rtf, text (default)

-h

shows this help

-l logfile

specify the file in which to log information about the exported items

-m mode

export mode, option: all, debug, items (default), recovered. 'all' exports the (allocated) items, orphan and recovered items. 'debug' exports all the (allocated) items, also those outside the the root folder. 'items' exports the (allocated) items. 'recovered' exports the orphan and recovered items.

-q

quiet shows minimal status information

-t target

specify the basename of the target directory to export to (default is the source filename) pffexport will add the following suffixes to the basename: .export, .orphans, .recovered

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# pffexport file.pst
pffexport 20110107

Opening file.
Exporting items.
Exporting folder item 1 out of 4.

DIAGNOSTICS¶

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

BUGS¶

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libpff/

AUTHOR¶

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2008-2018, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO¶

pffinfo(1)