Aspose.Email for Java 20.10 Release Notes

All Changes

Key Summary Category
EMAILNET-39952 Page Data is not valid when loading folder in OST Enhancement
EMAILNET-39947 Issue on PST to EML conversion (extractionTest.PST) Bug
EMAILNET-39950 MergeWith(stream[]) not working for empty PST Bug
EMAILNET-39951 BodyEncoding is null while emails fetching from server Bug
EMAILJAVA-34747 How to change MapiNote creation date Bug
EMAILNET-39955 The Msg file is interpreted as corrupted, but opens in Outlook without error Bug
EMAILJAVA-34751 Exception on loading VCF file Bug

New features

Reading corrupted PST/OST files

Sometimes it may not be possible to read the PST/OST due to some issues. For example, some data blocks may be corrupted. In such cases, exceptions usually arise when calling the EnumerateFolders, EnumerateMessages, GetContents, GetSubfolders, etc. methods. But individual messages or folders may remain undamaged in the storage.

We have added methods that allow to find item identifiers in a hierarchical manner. Further, you can extract items by identifiers.

  • PersonalStorage.findMessages(String parentEntryId) - finds the identifiers of messages for the folder.
  • PersonalStorage.findSubfolders(String parentEntryId) - finds the identifiers of subfolders for the folder.

Note, that despite the advantages, there are corrupted storages that cannot be read even using these methods.

Code sample:

try (PersonalStorage pst = PersonalStorage.fromFile(fileName)) {
    exploreCorruptedPst(pst, pst.getRootFolder().getEntryIdString());
}

public static void exploreCorruptedPst(PersonalStorage pst, String rootFolderId) {
    Iterable<String> messageIdList = pst.findMessages(rootFolderId);

    for (String messageId : messageIdList) {
        try {
            MapiMessage msg = pst.extractMessage(messageId);
            System.out.println("- " + msg.getSubject());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Message reading error. Entry id: " + messageId);
        }
    }

    Iterable<String> folderIdList = pst.findSubfolders(rootFolderId);

    for (String subFolderId : folderIdList) {
        if (subFolderId != rootFolderId) {
            try {
                FolderInfo subfolder = pst.getFolderById(subFolderId);
                System.out.println(subfolder.getDisplayName());
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println("Message reading error. Entry id: " + subFolderId);
            }

            exploreCorruptedPst(pst, subFolderId);
        }
    }
}