Re: Mailbox converter? - solution found, I think

["Marc Sherman" <msherman@myrealbox.com>]

I wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a script or program (for linux
> > or windows) that will convert an outlook express 5
> > .dbx file to a standard linux mailbox format?

From: davidturetsky <davidturetsky@email.msn.com>
> What a great thought!
> 
> And is there a script to convert Outlook Express Addressbook too?

I did some fishing around, and found a reference in the
Email HOWTO to mbx2mbox, which converts old OE4 mailboxes
(.mbx) to RFC822 mbox files.  On the authors homepage,
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/code/outlooktechniques.html
I found suggestions for doing the same with OE5's .dbx
files.  In particular, suggestion 2, which is to copy the
folder from OE5 to your linux box using IMAP, looks very
promising - of course, it requires either that your linux
box be a separate machine from your windows box (which is
true in my case, but may not be for you), or that you have 
a Windows IMAP server, and I'm not sure if there are any 
free solutions there.

Of course, it also requires that your IMAP server use
RFC822 mbox's, but mine (the UW imapd) does, so that's
ok.

I'll try it tonight, and let you know how I make out.

- Marc