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RE: [sleuthkit-users] AOL .pfc files

[OFD L. S. D. <DSc...@of...>]

Hi,

try PFC-Viewer (http://members.aol.com/pfcviewer/)

Dennis

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Angus Marshall [mailto:an...@n-...]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:32 PM
>To: sle...@li...
>Subject: [sleuthkit-users] AOL .pfc files
>
>
>Not strictly a sleuthkit question, but definitely one for 
>sleuthkit users ;-)
>
>Does anyone know of something which can decode AOL .PFC files 
>(originating on 
>Windows) on a *nix platform ? Alternatively, does anyone know 
>where I might 
>be able to find some info. on the file structure ? 
>
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RE: [sleuthkit-users] AOL .pfc files

[Angus M. <an...@n-...>]

Thanks Dennis - that does exactly what I need, and it even seems to work on AOL8.

On Thu Sep 29  5:59 , 'OFD Land Schreiber, Dennis'
<DSc...@of...> sent:

>Hi,
>
>try PFC-Viewer (http://members.aol.com/pfcviewer/)
>
>Dennis
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Angus Marshall [an...@n-...]
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:32 PM
>>To: sle...@li...
>>Subject: [sleuthkit-users] AOL .pfc files
>>
>>
>>Not strictly a sleuthkit question, but definitely one for 
>>sleuthkit users ;-)
>>
>>Does anyone know of something which can decode AOL .PFC files 
>>(originating on 
>>Windows) on a *nix platform ? Alternatively, does anyone know 
>>where I might 
>>be able to find some info. on the file structure ? 
>>
>>
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[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)