Re: [Evolution] How to transfer Outlook .pst file to Evolution?

[Ariano Bertacca <a bertacca vva de>]

Libpst 0.5 looks like great work, but not without many problems.
I discovered several bugs when using very large pst files (i recommend
exporting the main pst into several smaller ones).
Even after converting all my pst files into mbox format i lost about 40%
of my attachments. Most of my mails now consist of two parts - the clear
text mail body and a rtf attachment containing the same message again.
Somehow most of my messages lost their attachments that way - it looks
like there are some problems with the mime boundaries.
At last i tried to convert my contacts into vcard (readpst -cv bla.pst)
which ends in libpst segfaulting.

My resolution was exporting all data into an imap server and fetching it
from there. Therefor you need to get the tnef decoder from sourceforge
to convert the ugly winmail.dat which gets attached to every mail that
contains an attachment or rtf/html content. 

Cheers,

Ariano Bertacca


On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:20, Hought, Todd wrote:
> On freshmeat.net is a project called 'libpst', which includes a utility
> to parse through a pst file and leave it in mbox format, which can then
> be imported into Evolution.
>
> -T
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 19:32, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > I guess the subject line says it all.. I want to get outlook 2000's .pst
> > file to be imported into evolution.
> >
> > Any way to do that? I read there's a converter for Outlook express. What
> > about full blown outlook??
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mun Heng, Ow
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