Public bug reported: Evolution 2.26 (to be available in Jaunty) has added a new importer (as an Evolution plugin) for Outlook PST files; this will allow for integrated conversion from Outlook saved emails to Evolution. See [1] for details.
This importer requires libpst to be at version 0.6.17, or later. Currently available libpst on Ubuntu is 0.5.3-1 for Jaunty, and is incompatible. A check on Debian shows the latest available version as 0.5.3, so also incompatible. Moreover, Debian is in deep freeze now, and we cannot expect a newer version to be available soon [2]. So. The option seems to package directly from upstream; Evolution used a fork [3] from the original source [4], so www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst is the upstream. Although Evolution upstream based the development on libpst 0.6.17, the currently available version is 0.6.24. I am currently checking on the possibility of using 0.6.24 (so that we will be up-to-date). An additional patch has been proposed by the Evolution developer to allow libpst to be created as a shared library, and would have to be added in the source. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208426 [2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=readpst&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all [3] http://www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst/ [4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox/ ; the last released source was on 2002, so we can say this project is abandoned. ** Affects: libpst (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: needs-packaging ** Tags added: needs-packaging -- Please upgrade libpst from upstream at www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317602 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs