Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-14 Thread mouss
Jeff Larsen wrote: Taking a different approach than others... Load them back into Outlook Express on a Windows box. Open a gmail account and enable it for IMAP access. Configure Outlook Express for gmail/IMAP and copy the messages to gmail folders. Configure T-Bird on CentOS for gmail/IMAP

[CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD I

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread John Plemons
Have you tried the Thunderbird import tool?? It has a Outlook toggle and should handle the file.. It is under the tools drop down, and is called Import... john plemons Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread John Plemons
From Mozilla... Linux utilities There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/tools.php , libpst http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/Libpst and Outport http://outport.sourceforge.net/ . Thunderbird uses a

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread Mogens Kjaer
John Plemons wrote: ... There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/tools.php , libpst ... Outlook _Express_ doesn't use .pst files, Outlook does. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread John Plemons
Might be a stretch, but can you convert the Outlook Express Files into Outlook .pst format? From there you may get you conversion... john Mogens Kjaer wrote: John Plemons wrote: ... There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread Milton Calnek
Have you looked at the extension ImportExportTools? Mogens Kjaer wrote: John Plemons wrote: ... There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/tools.php , libpst ... Outlook _Express_ doesn't use .pst files, Outlook

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread Robert
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100%