Package: pst-utils
Version: 0.6.71-0.1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Hi,
We have been using the tool to extract emails from the PST files. However with
the recent observations, for some mails where the transport headers contain ARC
headers, the email addresses are not extracted from the PST and only usernames
are available in the MIME content of emails that are extracted.
After enabling debug logs we got to know that all the internet headers are
being ignored as bogus headers which also contains the headers To:, From: ...
where we can see the email addresses available.
As the tool is open-source we tried to debug the tool, post debug we identified
that the the headers are ignored (as bogus headers) and the tool is using the
metadata extracted to construct MIME content for the email where the email
addresses are missing.
We would like to point at two parts where the issue could be possibly happened.
1) Parsing the mail from PST - As the structure variable does not contain the
addresses for these emails.
2) Ignoring the headers as bogus headers using the incorrect comparison.
We are not able to look into the parsing part, but we did some changes to
verify the behavior at identification part of bogus headers, probably not
appropriate changes.
Sample Data:
Below is the sample MIME Content that is extracted for an email from
PST by readpst utility
From: user_1
To: user_2
CC: user_3
where user_1, user_2 and user_3 are just usernames without email addresses
We would like to hear back as soon as possible.
Thank you
Sai Kalyan
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