> 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?
Graeme!
I've been meaning to throw this up to the list for a while, but haven't got
around to it.
There's a great piece of software called oe2mbx, which worked wonders with
my email files from Outlook Express. I initially needed the software because
my OE5 mailboxes became unreadable to anything under Windows because a
single file - folders.dbx - was missing. Nothing could read them... How's
that for redundancy?
Enter the very helpful hacker, Stephan Nedregaard. I managed to catch him
just as he was developing a new version, and sent him 30MB of mail files to
hack on. Within 7 days I had most of my mail sucked out into standard mbox
format, fully intact, attachments and all.
Your PST format files may or may not be compatible with Stephan's software -
if not, get in touch with him. He's incredibly helpful, super-fast, and I
don't think he read my private email either. ;) I'm sure he'd be interested
to get Outlook exports going too.
Stephan hasn't just done a quick hack job either - he's developed liboe for
other mail software to use, and has released it under the GPL. From Stephan,
only a couple of weeks ago:
Thanks to the great people over at the Evolution list, I was able to
detect the only thinkable incompatibility between oe2mbx and any version
of OE (it already reads more OE boxes than my version of OE, which I
think is a bit funny.)
Oh, and by the way, Miguel de Icaza has confirmed that Evolution
developers are indeed interested in using liboe in Evolution.
Cool, huh? :) Imagine being able to say to Windows users, "Move to Linux,
keep your email - no fuss." That'd convert quite a few desktops I know...
The last version released was oe2mbx 1.21 and liboe-0.92, both of which you
can download from http://www.micropop.com/
Give him a yell, and see what you can work on.
Let your mail be free!
- Jeff
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