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Lx tools mng pst files

pst-utils

Linux command line tools to read .pst files and extract it’s data.
sudo apt install pst-utils

extracting is possible to difference formats

synaptic :
package contains tools based on libpst to read data from MS Outlook PST files.
- readpst - export data from PST files to a variety of formats, including
mbox, MH, Maildir and Mozilla-mbox.
- lspst - list data in PST files.
- pst2ldif - extract contacts from a PST file and prepare them for input in
LDAP
- pst2dii - export data from PST files to Summation dii load file format

readpst

extracts data from a pst file
readpst [options] pstfile.pst

readpst -V ==> ReadPST / LibPST v0.6.74 – Little Endian

[options]
-r
Changes the output format to Recursive.
This will create folders as named in the PST file, and put all emails in a file called “mbox” inside each folder. Appointments go into a file called
“calendar”, address book entries go into a file called “contacts”,
and journal entries go into a file called “journal”. These files
are then compatible with all mbox-compatible email clients. This
format uses mboxrd from quoting.

-o
output-directory
Specifies the output directory. The directory must already exist,
and is entered after the PST file is opened, but before any
processing of files commences.