Re: [Evolution] Outlook PST Equivalent

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:28 +1200, Gavin Young wrote:
> Reading through previous mailing list postings it appears Evolution
> doesn't support PSTs at all and the recommended method for viewing them
> in Evolution is to use Mozilla Mail to import the PST and then export as
> mbox but what about archiving mail?
>
> Previously I used to archive items older than 3 months into a PST that I
> could backup. What is the equivalent in evolution?
>
> Interested to hear what people recommend.

Depends what you mean by archiving. I keep old Sent mail in subfolders
of Sent according to year, on an IMAP server. I do it manually (it's
just a batch move once a year) but I guess it could be scripted. If you
use local folders it would depend on what flavour they are (mbox,
maildir, ...).

If you want to recover your old PST backups then just use Mozilla (I
guess Thunderbird would also work) and convert them. Alternatively, move
them onto an IMAP server (using Outlook) and pull them back off with
Evo. If you have the Exchange Connector for Evo that might also work.

poc