Re: How to convert Outlook *.pst files to mbox format?
* John P Verel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02/04/10 04:08]: 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. maybe this might help you: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html For OE you may use mbx2mbox with sucess. Thomas -- Thomas Hümmler * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.huemmler.de
Re: How to convert Outlook *.pst files to mbox format?
Outlook can save emails to IMAP server. What I did was create an IMAP account under outlook, select all, copy to a folder under IMAP. I do not know if procmail will be activated if you copy them to your IMAP/inbox. On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:41:25PM -0400, John P Verel wrote: Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:41:25 -0400 From: John P Verel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to convert Outlook *.pst files to mbox format? 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. -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech! -- Bo Peng Department of Statistics Rice University http://www.stat.rice.edu/~bpeng
Re: How to convert Outlook *.pst files to mbox format?
* 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
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Re: How to convert Outlook *.pst files to mbox format?
Gerhard Häring wrote: * 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. if you have access to an IMAP server (or even if you can temporarily install one on the machine you're running mutt on), you could use outlook to copy the files to an IMAP server; then download the messages into mutt (or if you have access to the IMAP server, and it's running UW imapd, you can even just copy the mbox files wherever you want them). there are also some conversion tools out there, but seems to me it is easier to use IMAP if possible. -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net .
Re: How to convert Outlook *.pst files to mbox format?
On 04/10/02, 04:02:02AM +0200, Gerhard Häring wrote: 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. This may do the trick. I have no particular need to filter the messages. Rather, if I can simply make them available to browse in mutt, this will be fine. A good weekend project ahead of me. Thanks! -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech!
Re: How to convert Outlook *.pst files to mbox format?
* Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-09 19:18 -0700]:
Gerhard Häring wrote:
* 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.
if you have access to an IMAP server (or even if you can temporarily
install one on the machine you're running mutt on), you could use
outlook to copy the files to an IMAP server;
The problem was that I was without an ISP at home for some time, so I
downloaded mails at work into Outlook/MS Exchange. When I got internet
again at home, I wanted to transfer the messages and import it into my
IMAP/procmail setup at home.
Unfortunately, I can't access the German MS Exchange server at work
reasonably with anything besides Outlook. All other IMAP clients choke
on the folder names that contain German umlauts or spaces. For some
reason, Exchange uses a weird encoding for these :-(
Gerhard
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