There are a few options. If the tool runs on Microsoft Windows, the Messaging API (MAPI) provides programmatic access to Microsoft Outlook. Another approach is to attempt and reverse engineer the format, and develop analysis code based on the author’s understanding of the format. Alternatively, techniques such as file carving can also be used.

Until the standard is released, how did the forensic examiners manage to extract the emails data from damaged pst files? In situations when neither scanpst, pffrecover/pffexport, etc. work how do you extract the contents of the file?

Cheers,
Luke