Re: [Evolution] How to read archived mail from outlook (pst)

[ritz <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hello

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 09:10 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> I don't have a response to Mr. Case, but a related question.
>
> I support Windows at work, but live in Linux.  I perform almost all of
> my Exchange tasks in Evolution.  We require our staff to auto-archive
> using Outlook.  Auto-archiving consists of moving items older than a
> certain date to a local .pst file.  We have the archive.pst on a RAID
Evolution cannot read pst file. You would have to use Thunderbird on
windows to convert these to mbox.

> network drive.  This is cheaper than the offsite backups of the Exchange
> data.
>
> I have auto-archiving turned off because I don't know how to access the
> data on the archive.pst using Evolution.  
>
> Is this possible?
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 14:52 -0500, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I am looking for suggestions, tips or howtos.
> >
> > Periodically, once every six months or so, I go through my Evo Saved
> > file.  I either delete emails I no longer want to save, or move stuff to
> > a sub-folder called MessageArchive. (Lots of good stuff from mailing
> > lists in there).  I then copy 
> > /home/bill/.evolution/mail/local/Saved.sbd/MessageArchive to a general
> > archive directory where I store all kinds of files that I have archived.
> > I finish by deleting every thing in Evo's MessageArchive.  I am then
> > good for another six-eight months
> >
> > My question is: Is there an easy way to read those archived messages if
> > I want to look up something I have archived?  A straight text read is
> > difficult to sort out because of the header data and all -- that is what
> > I have been doing whenever I wanted something up to now.  Perhaps some
> > awk scripts but that would be a learning curve!  
> >
> > I have thought of running a second instance of Evo, but then how would I
> > find the saved Message Archive file?  Would I create a link?  Copy the
> > files back to /.evolution?  Or is there a simple email program like mutt
> > or others that would let me get a quick read of one of these old stored
> > files?
> >
> > I have been playing around, but haven't yet settled on a strategy to
> > dive into.  Any suggestions or thoughts would be helpful.
>
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