Outlook to Mozilla
I remember recently someone wonderning about converting their Outlook
mail to Mozilla.
In response someone else noted that Mozilla for Windows can import
Outlook mail.
SO! The obvious thing to do is to import Outlook mail into Mozilla. It
works!
Then, copy the folder and all of its contents Mozilla creates (you might
want to archive it) and move that folder to your Linux partition.
In this case I copied everything to ~/.mozilla/default/Mail/
Here you will find the folder for whatever mail account you have already
created - assuming there is no mail in it, I renamed the Mozilla mail
account folder (say it was, "AOL" to "Old" and renamed the imported mail
account folder to the name of the Mozilla mail account folder (i.e.,
"AOL"). You may not find this step necessary as this made all of my
Public folder available - which I wanted.
Under the folder "AOL" you will see 2 folders, one is "Public
Folders.sbd" and the other in my case is "a19922df.sbd".
In order to get the contents of "a19922df.sbd" to be available, open
Mozilla mail. Create a new folder under "Local Folders". Say it's
called "Mail". Go ahead and close Mozilla mail.
Now, Take the "a19922df.sbd" folder and move it to
~/.mozilla/default/Mail/Local Folders
Under "Local Folders" you will see the folder "Mail.sbd" which you just
created in Mozilla mail. Delete it and change the name of folder
"a19922df.sbd" to "Mail.sbd"
Now open Mozilla and all your mail will be there.
Actually, it failed to import mail in some subfolders, but I had so
little mail in them, that it didn't matter.
Good luck!
Curtis
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