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v0.3.0 — Calendars, contacts, tasks & baked-in category colours

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@Aksel-Visby Aksel-Visby released this 06 Jul 22:15
v0.3.0
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This is a big one. ContinuMail started life mail-only — with 0.3.0 your Thunderbird calendar, to-dos and contacts come across too, at near-100% fidelity, at the click of a button. And your Outlook category colours are now baked straight into the PST.

What's new

  • Contacts → PST. Address books become real Outlook contact cards — names, company and title, every phone number, home/business addresses, birthdays, websites, notes, and photos. Modern Thunderbird (abook*.sqlite, read via vCard) and the legacy .mab books both work.
  • Calendar → PST. Events convert with timezone management, all-day handling, reminders, busy/free, attendees as proper meeting recipients, and recurring events (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly) — plus attachments and online-meeting links. I did a chunk of the timezone work in UTC+7 with my PC set to CEST, which I regret deeply, because screw timezones but that forced me to sort that out early on.
  • Tasks (to-dos) → PST. Due and start dates, task completion and % complete, priority, reminders, recurrence, attachments.
  • Custom tags & categories keep their colours. Mail tags and calendar/task categories are baked into every PST as your Outlook master category list, in the colours Thunderbird actually shows — no add-in, no COM, no separate step. One quirk worth knowing: Outlook only reads that list from your primary/default data store, so open the converted PST as your main store to see the colours. (Here's how it works.)
  • PIM now routes per-account, like mail (desktop). Mail already split into one PST per account — now your calendars, contacts and tasks do too, landing in that account's own PST right alongside its mail instead of one undifferentiated lump.

Smaller stuff

  • Fixed: folders whose names start or end with a dot (like .Trash) used to get skipped — they convert now.
  • Removed: the old import-colours / outlook-profiles commands and the one-click colour button. Colours live inside the PST now, so there's nothing extra to run.

The full, unabridged list is in the CHANGELOG.

Downloads

  • ContinuMail Converter_0.3.0_x64-setup.exe — the Windows desktop app (installer; the GUI is Windows-only).
  • mail2pst-cli-0.3.0-win-x64.exe — the command-line converter, Windows.
  • mail2pst-cli-0.3.0-linux-x64 — the command-line converter, Linux.
  • mail2pst-cli-0.3.0-osx-arm64 — the command-line converter, macOS (Apple Silicon).

The CLI binaries are single-file and self-contained — no .NET install needed.

Unsigned binaries — first-run steps

  • Windows: SmartScreen may pop up → More info → Run anyway.
  • Linux: you'll need libicu (e.g. sudo apt install libicu-dev), then chmod +x the binary.
  • macOS: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ./mail2pst-cli-0.3.0-osx-arm64 && chmod +x ./mail2pst-cli-0.3.0-osx-arm64. Heads up: the osx-arm64 binary is built and tested in CI only — it hasn't been run on a physical Mac.

SHA-256

976578f18af87ea004a0c37be161739b8162fc5119798e4dcab07a065105fc26  ContinuMail Converter_0.3.0_x64-setup.exe
3005f9bb56d09016b6bc46b64613d604a60658b6a51bafe90e54f9271a9cb2ec  mail2pst-cli-0.3.0-win-x64.exe
bd5a1a03d667ff0cc0b563dff1a7a1af994d90b7c462c5515dc24f814e21d808  mail2pst-cli-0.3.0-linux-x64
932390775e4cd2a7bf711aef00999588dc5e233834bd29c2d791c644c85d019b  mail2pst-cli-0.3.0-osx-arm64
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