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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?

Actually 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/a14325cc451b04a5bf78c476ac20...

LLM and Google are suggesting it might be this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/exchange_server_...

A lot of Microsoft formats are open standards... Created by and only used by Microsoft...

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