On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:51, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2003 22:19, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:51, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > On Thursday 16 October 2003 02:45, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > Has anyone tried/succeeded in importing messages from Microsoft > > > > Outlook (.pst files) to Mozilla Mail? > > > > Does anyone have any idea on how to do this? > > > > > > The prefered way is to set up an imap server on a linux box, and set > > > outlook up to talk to it. You can then copy all the contents of a pst > > > file (including directories) onto the imap server. > > > > Note that configuring an IMAP server isn't trivial, and documentation > > is sketchy, unless you want to spring for the O'Reilly book. > > When I did it, "apt-get install courier-imap" just about did all I needed. I > certainly don't remember having to do any other playing about to get it to > work. Obviously if you want to use it to receive mail into the Maildirs that > it uses you have to do something with an MTA, but thats a different issue.
But isn't that what make IMAP really useful (for a "home LAN" user)? I.e., getting fetchmail & SpamAssassin & exim|postfix to feed the mail to IMAP, so that you can use Evo, WebMail, KMail, etc. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me thy discordant images at such speed as to render linear thought impossible" Calvin, regarding TV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]