Re: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:51, Alan Chandler wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 16 October 2003 02:45, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
> >
> > > 	Hi.
> > > 	Has anyone tried/succeeded in importing messages from Microsoft Outlook
> > > (.pst files) to Mozilla Mail?
> > > 	Does anyone have any idea on how to do this?
> >
> > The prefered way is to set up an imap server on a linux box, and set outlook 
> > up to talk to it.  You can then copy all the contents of a pst file 
> > (including directories) onto the imap server.
>
>
> Note that configuring an IMAP server isn't trivial, and documentation
> is sketchy, unless you want to spring for the O'Reilly book.

  depending on which one. cyrus is pretty complicated to set up (mostly 
because of very weird or missing error messages) but uw-imap is trivial 
to set up - you install it and that's pretty much it.

  So if it's IMAP just to get stuff out of outlook I'd say uw-imap 
makes sense... (in fact IMO there's really no excuse to not have imap:-)

	erik