Re: [Evolution] Email conversion problems going from Outlook to Netscape to Evolution

[Marcus Senna Borges de Barros <msenna sefaz ba gov br>]

You can import directly from Outlook to Thunderbird, and then to Evolution. But, in my case, the process took too long, because it started (don't know why) importing the Exchange public folders (which I didn't want). I also had some problems with the plai-text messages that contained accented characters (Portuguese).

Em Ter, 2007-05-22 às 20:40 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray escreveu:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:38 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> > I am a recent convert to Linux - CentOS 4.4, then 5.0 to be specific.
> > 
> > I had a ton of email in my Outlook folders that I wanted to import
> > into Evolution, but it doesn't do that.  The recommended method was to
> > convert to some other, supported email program and then convert from
> > there to Evolution.
> > 
> > So, I converted all my email from Outlook to Netscape (which sucks),
> > and from there attempted to convert to Evolution.  Two problems
> > emerged:
> > 
> > 1) Evolution did not recognize my Netscape email at all.  Hence, it
> > did not suck in all my NS email.  I don't know why - it's in the right
> > places.
> > 
> > 2) I tried to import all my email one folder at a time.  That worked
> > up to a point: NS uses compressed files to contain some of my email,
> > and Evolution did not recognize those at all.
> > 
> > When I went from CentOS 4.4 to 5.0 (Gnome 2.16.0) I hoped this would
> > be "fixed" but alas, no such luck....
> > 
> > So, how do I get those (gobs of) compressed email messages into Evolution?
>
> Not sure, but does Thunderbird support importing mail from Netscape ?
> If yes, you could try in 3stages  Netscape->Thunderbird->Evolution ( the
> last stag is optional ).
>
>
> I had used this method for MS outlook ( pst files ) -> Thunderbird
> ( windows )sd -> Evolution .
>
> > s
> > Thanks.
> >

Atenciosamente,
 

Marcus Senna Borges de Barros
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