Outlook conversion
I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months.
Re: Outlook conversion
I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months. Is it possible to export Outlook mail to Netscape? What if you did that, opened it in Netscape under Linux and went on from then? - Bart
Re: Outlook conversion
I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months. http://software.starnate.com/ could be what you´re looking for... cheers, rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |KPNQwest/AT | DSA key ID: C33A2BC0 /
Re: Outlook conversion
also sprach Rob Zietlow (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:15:16AM -0600): I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months. i spent a lot of time on this when i was in the same situation and i found the best and most reliable way to be creating an imap server, moving all your outlook mail onto there, then downloading it with fetchmail onto linux. all the tools i looked at couldn't preserve all headers or otherwise screwed with files and or attachments. now, this is obviously due to micros~1's retarded way of doing things, but it's what you got... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Could you forward them to yourself and check your email in mutt or whatever? On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rob Zietlow wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months. -- There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
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In lists.projects.debian.user, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months. Is it possible to export Outlook mail to Netscape? What if you did that, opened it in Netscape under Linux and went on from then? Netscape uses the more-or-less-standard mbox format used by most Unix mail clients. If you can convert to Netscape, most things should be able to read it. I'm not sure specifically about Evolution or Kmail, but my guess is that it should probably work. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ Unfortunately, men befriend women in futile attempts to get a 3d accelerated video card thingy... -- Megahal (trained on asr), 1998-11-05
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I looked into this pretty recently, and gave up. MS does not provide many choices for export, and they tend to lose data. I tried to import into Eudora 5, which claims to be able to handle this. It couldn't. I can't recall if I tried NS, but if I did, it didn't work. This was with Outlook 2000. I think one could write a program in VB for outlook to do the job, but if you wanted to handle attachments it would be difficult. The outlook .pst format is incredibly slow to work with--I found it took hours to import and export messages using it. I think there are some commercial programs which convert Outlook to intermediate formats, but they tend to be more focused on MS Exchange. At 10:12 AM 2/28/01 -0500, Kirrily Robert wrote: In lists.projects.debian.user, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months. Is it possible to export Outlook mail to Netscape? What if you did that, opened it in Netscape under Linux and went on from then? Netscape uses the more-or-less-standard mbox format used by most Unix mail clients. If you can convert to Netscape, most things should be able to read it. I'm not sure specifically about Evolution or Kmail, but my guess is that it should probably work. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ Unfortunately, men befriend women in futile attempts to get a 3d accelerated video card thingy... -- Megahal (trained on asr), 1998-11-05 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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also sprach Ross Boylan (on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:09:40PM -0800): The outlook .pst format is incredibly slow to work with--I found it took hours to import and export messages using it. that's why i proposed the imap approach. fire it up friday, it may be done by next week. it took 5 days for me to convert 12 years of mail :) martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- maturity is only a short break in adolescence. -- jules feiffer
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I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months. Someone mentioned --- Kmailcvt in the K - Utilities - Kmail Import --- in private mail to me. I don´t use any KDE (nor am I the one with the Hindlook-problem), so I can´t comment on it... cheers, rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |KPNQwest/AT | DSA key ID: C33A2BC0 /
Re: Outlook conversion
Robert Waldner wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past couple months. Someone mentioned --- Kmailcvt in the K - Utilities - Kmail Import --- works only for Outlook Express, not Outlook. For mail only, use netscape under win to convert to standar MBX format, which can be used by netscape on linux, and I belive Kmail and Evolution. Anyone can recomend way to conver addressbooks?
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Vadim == Vadim Kutsyy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vadim For mail only, use netscape under win to convert to standar Vadim MBX format, which can be used by netscape on linux, and I Vadim belive Kmail and Evolution. or copy mail on to a imap server... Vadim Anyone can recomend way to conver addressbooks? Outlook has an export feature (sorry Outlook is broken on the Windows computer in question, so I can't test it). I think you could export it to excel for instance, and from there you could export it to a comma separated format. You might even be able to do that in one step. From there... I am not sure where to go ;-). I don't use Kmail or Evolution. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
