Re: Mailbox conversion
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On 06/25/08 14:38, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Finally the motherboard of my wife's computer broke down, so I had
> to replace it. I could not just get a new motherboard, because
> they do not sell boards with "462" sockets anymore. The cheapest
> solution was an MSI motherboard with AMD-64 dual core and one gig
> of memory. You cannot get anything simpler nowadays. I can clearly
> remember the time when such specs would have meant "supercomputer"
> (as in "several million dollars").
>
> This operation made her old Windows 2000 unusable. You can run a
> 32-bit OS on a 64-bit machine, but some things (notably the ATI
> display drivers for the new motherboard) refuse to install if the
> OS is not 64-bit. A great opportunity to install Linux. I didn't
> install Debian itself, but the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. After
> some tweaking it works fine, including some difficult things like
> Japanese input, printing through the home network, etc. Before
> reformatting the Windows hard disk I first copied its contents to
> a USB external disk. From there I could restore the mail address
> book (Outlook -> Thunderbird) and the browser favorites/bookmarks
> (IE -> Firefox). My wife thinks the new system is great.
>
> After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of
> old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx,
> out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the
> messages inside the .dbx files are mostly Japanese). I searched
> the web for "converting dbx to mbox". Found lots of answers, most
> of them seem old, and they do not agree. Is there a "canonical"
> way to make .dbx mail archives available to Linux Thunderbird/Icedove?
http://search.cpan.org/~vparseval/Mail-Transport-Dbx-0.07/Dbx.pm
Under Wine or Win2k in a VM:
http://www.mailnavigator.com/export_messages_to_eudora_mail.html
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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