[sleuthkit-users] RE: AOL .pfc files

[<Geo...@ao...>]

Hello,
 
as the file _http://members.aol.com/pfcviewer/pfcview.jar_ 
(http://members.aol.com/pfcviewer/pfcview.jar)   seems to be
corrupted (may be it was uploaded in ascii mode?) here are some  other
tools that can read PFC-files:
 
- "AOL-Dump" (German only),
_http://www.datanorm-software.de/aol-dump/aol-dump.htm_ 
(http://www.datanorm-software.de/aol-dump/aol-dump.htm) ,  is freeware,
can export as MBOX. Drawbacks: removes all HTML tags &  embedded
pictures are lost.  Also it seems that date & time of the  messages
are not correct (sometimes +/- 10 years :-) )
 
- "Goodbye A*L" (german & english),
_http://www.rkerbitz.de/goodbye/_ (http://www.rkerbitz.de/goodbye/) 
is  shareware but not sold anymore, but the trial version can show and
export  messages (only one by one, that's the restriction) into EML-files.
Works good  with embedded pictures (I had just some problems with  german
"Umlaut"-characters).
 
- "E-Mail-Umzugshelfer" (german only),
_http://reiser-software.de/dl_mail.html_ 
(http://reiser-software.de/dl_mail.html) ,  is shareware and writes both EML
and MBOX files. I've only tested the trial  version: it even shows
messages correctly that AOL's software does not  display anymore (e.g.
german users suffer from disappearing special  characters every time when
there is a new AOL version...)
Unfortunately  the trial version shortens messages (but at least those
with attachment or  embedded pictures are shown completely)
 

BTW: This is the only usefull information I have ever found on  the
PFC binary format:
 
_http://members.aol.com/fvongordon/pfc/_ 
(http://members.aol.com/fvongordon/pfc/) 
_http://members.aol.com/fvongordon/pfc/PFC-Details.zip_ 
(http://members.aol.com/fvongordon/pfc/PFC-Details.zip)