[Evolution] Re: Proper Outlook 2003 Migration

[Joshua Dodoc <joshuaml gmail com>]

Reply to self, and of use to others overcoming my problem.

I managed to find pretty much the only way to do this properly, and
easily for mass conversion.

Located at http://www.neotek.hu/ there was a way of exporting all
these things ie the "calendar", "contacts", "tasks" and "mails" and a
script for batch processing which is what interested me, as this can
be a time consuming process.

http://www.neotek.hu/en/o2e-0.4.tar.gz this tar.gz has everything
needed in order to convert and i hope is mirrored elsewhere as they
don't have any problems with that as theyre

"The tools are copyrighted using GPL software licence and are freely
downloadable from this website by  clicking here."-Neotek Systems

-Joshua ML

On 10/24/05, Joshua Dodoc <joshuaml gmail com> wrote:
> 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