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(@rampage)
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Hello everyone )

does anyone know if there is some sort of free tool for extracting strings from emails contained in a pst outlook file? and why not put them into a text file that i can use as a dictionary?

i used pfflib tools sometimes for extracting emails from pst archives or simply to gather basic informations on such files, so maybe there is a tool or a procedure for also indexing text in emails?

thnx in advice for your effort )


   
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(@ddewildt)
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In theory you could use FTK 1.x as the demo version takes up to 5000 items without a dongle. So as long as your PST isn't going to be larger than that you should be able to do it.


   
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(@rampage)
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mhhh i can try….

but having something open to do this would be better.

maybe i can try to extract all the emails in the pst using pfflib tools and then try to run a recursive string command on all the extracted data, but i dunno if it will give me a good result.


   
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(@jeffbryner)
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glimpse is open source and can index raw text.
http//webglimpse.net/

In related news, an interesting comparison of other open source indexing engines. Maybe someday we'll get these to index forensic data?

http//developers.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/131243/Open-Source-Search-Engine-Benchmarks?from=rss


   
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