Re: [Evolution] Making the switch from Outlook

[Stephen Kuhn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 08:11, Leon Adato wrote:

> 1) Can you import Outlook email (from .pst files)?

You can try the utility "libpst" to attempt to get all your stuff out of
a .PST file, but in reality, it's not going to be nice'n'easy. The best
resolution to this issue as I've seen so far is to boot into your
Windows and your Outlook environment and do the following:

1.) Install either Netscape or Mozilla
2.) Import all the email from Outlook into either Netscape Mail or
Mozilla Mail - and make a note of where the directory that holds the
email for Netscape or Mozilla is - you're going to end up either copying
this entire directory  to your linux partition for an import, or doing a
direct import from that directory into Evolution.
3.) Reboot into linux and import from the directory where you imported
from Outlook to either Netscape or Mozilla.

> 2) Can you syncronize Evolution to WindowsCE devices?
> 3) Can you syncronize Evolution to online calendars such as Yahoo?
> 4) Can you syncronize email between a Windows machine running Outlook
> and Evolution? 
>
> Details on each question follow:
>
> 1) Can you import Outlook email (from .pst files)?
> ===================================================
> I have found two basic thoughts on this: One is to install Mozilla on
> the Windows machine, let *it* convert Outlook, and then import from
> there to Evolution.

This works best.

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