Stephan's Reply:
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> 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?
It might be interesting to know that this kind of problem also applies
to OE4 mailboxes. Microsoft uses IDX files to index these boxes, I found
no use for them in liboe (which also converts OE4 mailboxes as of 0.92).
Microsoft maintains these files to ensure speedy lookup, but their
software's inability to read mailboxes without them is simply
incredible.
> 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 -
It is not. The PST format is very different from the DBX and MBX
formats. It contains multiple mailboxes, calendars, contacts etc.
> 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.
Thanks :) - though it may take a bit longer now, as I work full-time at
Opera Software this summer. I *am* interested in importing Outlook
messages, but this is very different from the purpose of liboe, and
should probably be an entirely different product as well. At the time I
am consentrating on checking liboe for errors to get rid of those
segfaults improper use may cause with the current version and hopefully
to get support for Mac OE mailboxes (please send them if you've got any)
and conversion on big-endian platforms into 0.93, which will become a
publicly available 0.94. This might take a week or two. Hopefully, 1.0
will follow. It's a bit more boring than what's been done so far, and it
will be much less exciting to use oe2mbx in the future :)
> 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...
And that's what I want to accomplish with this project. Binaries will
soon be available for the Windows platform as well - as I guess some
users would like to convert their messages *before* converting. (Nice to
know if something went wrong ;)). I've said earlier that I am interested
in providing Outlook import capabilities as well, though it would be
nice to get some help, as this format is not the easiest one I've
encountered. (If anyone wants to look at it, export from Outlook as
unencrypted PST first.)
> 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!
And let's pray Microsoft doesn't come up with *yet* another proprietary
mail format.
Stephan
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