Working with PST Password Protection Properties

Working with PST Password Protection Properties

Microsoft Outlook lets users password-protect PST files to restrict access to them. Aspose.Email can detect password protection on a PST file. This article shows how to:

• Remove/Reset the Password property from the PST
• Setting/Changing PST Password

Removing/Resetting PR_PST_PASSWORD Property

Removal of the PR_PST_PASSWORD property cannot be achieved as other properties are removed from a message store. Instead, we need to set its value to zero (0) in order to get it removed. The “Store” property of the PST class allows accessing store properties of PST instead of MessageStoreProperties of PST in this case. The following code snippet shows you how to Remove/Reset PR_PST_PASSWORD Property.

Setting Password on PST Files

The following code snippet shows you how to set the password on PST files.