Re: [Evolution] Importing mail from windooze?

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On 09 Mar 2001 11:32:51 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le 2001.03.09 10:50:42 +0100, Ross Burton a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> I used it for 3 folders (some thousands mail too), and didn't have any
> problem. It really should be part of Evolution!

Code from that library is in the OE4 importer.  I'm pretty sure that it
does not do .pst files from outlook.

-JP

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