6 ms·
I’m going to try that on the newest outlook binary format used to store the emails locally... why couldn’t they stick to the plain simple sqlite?
by Lucasoato 14d ago
I’m going to try that on the newest outlook binary format used to store the emails locally... why couldn’t they stick to the plain simple sqlite?
- ChadNauseam 14d agoActually one of the worst and most insane file formats of all time. I partially reverse engineered it a while ago. My parser is super janky and I can't share it, but I pasted the code into claude and had it summarize it: https://gist.github.com/anchpop/a14325cc451b04a5bf78c476ac20358c https://gist.github.com/anchpop/a14325cc451b04a5bf78c476ac20...
- nijave 13d agoLLM and Google are suggesting it might be this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/exchange_server_protocols/ms-oxmsg/b046868c-9fbf-41ae-9ffb-8de2bd4eec82 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/exchange_server_... A lot of Microsoft formats are open standards... Created by and only used by Microsoft...