* John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-09 21:41 -0400]: > This may be an FAQ, but I couldn't come up with it. > > I have substantial *.pst files from Microsoft Outlook from work which > I want to convert to mbox format. Any pointers on this will be > gratefully appreciated.
I've done that recently. I used Mozilla on Windows to import the PST files. Then hunted down where Mozilla actually has his files. c:/Documents and Settings/..../AppData/Mozilla or similar it was in my case. Mozilla saves its mails in a mbox format. However, in a peculiar one with Windows line endings, so you have to get rid of the CR for example using tr. Voila the converted mbox files. In my case it was even worse, because my final aim was not mbox, but uploading the files on my imap server, then filtering them there using my procmail setup. In theory, this would work with formail/procmail, but in practise, I gave up after an hour or two. What I finally did was opening the mbox file in mutt, tag all messages and bounce them to my account on the imap machine. Bouncing 1700 messages to it and filtering them thru procmail gave my server a major workout :-) Gerhard -- mail: gerhard <at> bigfoot <dot> de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/ OpenPGP public key id AD24C930 public key fingerprint: 3FCC 8700 3012 0A9E B0C9 3667 814B 9CAA AD24 C930 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))