[ILUG] Importing mail

[Darren Rogers]

It was actually relatively painless, unlike trying to update four RH6.1 
machines without CD drives to RH7.0, which took two days...

Couldn't find any IMAP support in Outlook 98, but the same machine had 
Outlook Express installed. Simply imported from OE File menu, selected 
Outlook, and sat back while it copied the messages over.

Then I set up an IMAP account in OE for the user, and copied the 
messages from the local inbox to the IMAP inbox. Deleted user account in 
OE, configured Netscape Messenger on the linux box as POP3, and grabbed 
all the messages.

As I said, relatively painless. However, the user had all her mail in 
one folder; could have been a lot more complicated if she had loads of 
different folders...

HTH
Darren

Darren Rogers wrote:

>
>
> Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> >
> > no mail client. but there is a oe2mbx tool (search for liboe on
> > freshmeat) that can convert certain versions of Outlook mailboxes to
> > Unix mailbox format.
> >
> > which versions of Outlook use the supported format, i'm not sure, i
> > think OE, OL98.. i know someone who had to use it not so long ago to
> > convert someones email.. perhaps he could relate his experiences...
> >
>
>
> Haven't tried it yet- will do it while I'm in over the weekend :(
>
> I'm going to attempt to copy the mail over to our IMAP server, and
> download it onto a linux box
>
> I'll let you know how it went next week...
>
>
>

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