[Evolution] Proper Outlook 2003 Migration

[Joshua Dodoc <joshuaml gmail com>]

Okay so I have a bunch of people using Outlook 2003 and they currently
have their accounts set up, some using POP3 and the office's IMAP
server.

I want to migrate them over to Evolution as I think this is now
possible considering it's a really decent client for Linux and a
simple distribution for newbies such as Ubuntu 5.10 has come out.

My major problem is I've seen export migration tutorials that:

A. Are for Office 97-2000 and if your lucky XP
B. Do not convert all features of Outlook 2003 being, the mail, tasks,
contacts, appointments (calendars) and account settings.

C. Take a long time and claim that I am going to need a big cup of
coffee to do this for myself using "Mozilla" products. Let alone me
trying to convert more than person's email as there are likely to be
those people who need extra help where a FAQ wouldn't be good enough.

My other major concern is its no doubt MS is trying to stop this from
happening by patenting and preventing people from exporting their .pst
format to anything, but alas if it cannot be done easily I cannot
convert others to use Evolution.

Ultimately we are phasing out Microsoft Office all together as there
is absolutely no need for it, OpenOffice is coming along wonderfully
and with Evolution we have now a wonderful e-mail client that replaces
outlook in every way possible (except for the SharePoint gear).

-Joshua ML