I would advise against dumping a large amount of email into the mbox
format... there is a huge amount of room for data corruption... use Maildirs.
The problem then is that I have yet to find a IMAP server that support
maildirs that is Outlook compliant....
Jeffrey Borg wrote:
> I should write a howto about this
>
> You need two machines (one with the gates virus on it of course!)
> (or win4lin or vmware will do)
>
> For most distributions there should be a imap server there so usually it's
> only a matter of removing the # from /etc/inetd.conf and reloading it.
>
> Once that is done you can just fire up oe and setup the imap account, then
> just move your messages from the outlook expresses local folders to the
> imap server.
>
> Of course usually the imap server has written mbox files anyway which
> netscape can directly read to import the email, or better still secure the
> imap server and leave it there so you can use any email client you wish to
> read your email.
>
> The other option is just to take the mbox files and put them in netscapes
> mail path.
>
> Anyway worked for me. It can even apply to get those hotmail messages!
> (using oe5)
>
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Graeme Merrall wrote:
>
> > I'm using Gnome-Helix as my desktop of choice now and Netscape for mail
> > until Evolution is useable. I've got a pretty large amount of email in
> > MS-Outlook .pst format that I'd like to get into Netscape Mail or at
> > least access without installing Win4Lin and Outlook just to look at the
> > darn things.
> > Is there such a converter out there?
>
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