Re: [Evolution] Email conversion problems going from Outlook to Netscape to Evolution

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:38 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I am a recent convert to Linux - CentOS 4.4, then 5.0 to be specific.
>
> I had a ton of email in my Outlook folders that I wanted to import
> into Evolution, but it doesn't do that.  The recommended method was to
> convert to some other, supported email program and then convert from
> there to Evolution.
>
> So, I converted all my email from Outlook to Netscape (which sucks),
> and from there attempted to convert to Evolution.  Two problems
> emerged:
>
> 1) Evolution did not recognize my Netscape email at all.  Hence, it
> did not suck in all my NS email.  I don't know why - it's in the right
> places.
>
> 2) I tried to import all my email one folder at a time.  That worked
> up to a point: NS uses compressed files to contain some of my email,
> and Evolution did not recognize those at all.
>
> When I went from CentOS 4.4 to 5.0 (Gnome 2.16.0) I hoped this would
> be "fixed" but alas, no such luck....
>
> So, how do I get those (gobs of) compressed email messages into Evolution?

Not sure, but does Thunderbird support importing mail from Netscape ?
If yes, you could try in 3stages  Netscape->Thunderbird->Evolution ( the
last stag is optional ).


I had used this method for MS outlook ( pst files ) -> Thunderbird
( windows )sd -> Evolution .

> s
> Thanks.
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