Re: [Evolution] Importing mail from windooze?

[Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>]

On 08 Mar 2001 19:41:04 -0500, NotZed wrote:
> The pst format is a proprietry database format, and although we've had
> a little peek at its internals i dont think anyone got very far.
>
> We will provide some migration mechanism that will probably revolve around
> running an export program under windows first, and then importing
> the result to evolution, this is planned at least.


There is a library on Linux called liboe, and a program called oe2mbx,
which reads Outlook Express .pst files and produces a mbx.  I used it
last year and it mainly worked for my ~8000 messages, but it didn't like
three messages. If this bug has been fixed this might be worth a look
at.

Ross

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