Re: [Evolution] Importing mail from windooze?

[Iain <tigermilk btinternet com>]

On 09 Mar 2001 09:50:42 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> 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.

We are using liboe (well, borrowing the code from it) to handle OE4
files (and eventually OE5 ones too).
However, OE4 uses .mbx, OE5 using .dbx (I think), and neither of these
are anything like .pst that Outlook uses.

iain