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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Outlook conversion
From:       Ross Boylan <RossBoylan () stanfordalumni ! org>
Date:       2001-02-28 22:09:40
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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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