Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-04 Thread Mick
On 03/06/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/06/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running courier-imap. I guess I can use outlook under VMware to transfer the emails to my IMAP server. I was hoping to be able to do it off-line, but oh well. Oh no! Not winmail.dat ! ! ! Ha, ha!

Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-04 Thread JimD
Mick wrote: I also found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/ HTH Thanks for the links ;) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol --

Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-04 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Saturday 03 June 2006 12:03 skrev Mick: The winmail.dat file is in a M$Windoze format called Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Format, or MS-TNEF, some details on this format can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mapi/html/

Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-03 Thread Mick
On 03/06/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running courier-imap. I guess I can use outlook under VMware to transfer the emails to my IMAP server. I was hoping to be able to do it off-line, but oh well. Oh no! Not winmail.dat ! ! ! Ha, ha! Another wonderful M$Windoze formating

[gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-02 Thread JimD
Does anyone know of an app to convert outlook *.msg files to a text email? I have some individual email (*.msg) files from Outlook, not a .pst archive. I dragged-n-dropped the emails from crappy Outlook and now have them on my Gentoo box. I _thought_ they would have been stored as regular old

Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-02 Thread Mick
On 02/06/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't MS even do email right? Err, no. Have you tried importing them in a mail client (kmail, thunderbird, Opera)? I haven't tried it myself, but that's how I would go about it in the first instance. Should that fail, you could try Openoffice,

Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/2/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't MS even do email right? This was a rhetorical question, right? Anyway, the best way I have found to migrate messages from outlook is to setup an IMAP server, and use outlook to transfer the messages to the imap server. Most linux mail clients

Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-02 Thread JimD
Mick wrote: On 02/06/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't MS even do email right? Err, no. Have you tried importing them in a mail client (kmail, thunderbird, Opera)? I haven't tried it myself, but that's how I would go about it in the first instance. Should that fail, you could

Re: [gentoo-user] Outlook MSG file conversion

2006-06-02 Thread JimD
Richard Fish wrote: On 6/2/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't MS even do email right? This was a rhetorical question, right? Anyway, the best way I have found to migrate messages from outlook is to setup an IMAP server, and use outlook to transfer the messages to the imap server.