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Re: Outlook conversion

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.

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