OT Converting Outlook Express Mail to mailbox format
Here is a challenge. Does anyone know of any way in which a fairly large number of emails kept in Microsoft Outlook Express folders can be converted into conforming mailbox format mail files ? Apart from forwarding every one of them to someone who uses mailbox format that is ! -- Regards Cliff
Hi Get the latest KDE, install, start k-mail, import all e-mails.. You will preserve mail-folders too... Worked for us. Jaska. Viestissä Tiistai 30. Lokakuuta 2001 22:41, Cliff Sarginson kirjoitti:
Here is a challenge. Does anyone know of any way in which a fairly large number of emails kept in Microsoft Outlook Express folders can be converted into conforming mailbox format mail files ? Apart from forwarding every one of them to someone who uses mailbox format that is !
Ok, that is it will read a file created by the export facility in OE (I am straining to remember it, I am trying to do this for someone else). Export it as what sort of file ? I seem to recall their are a few options. That sounds a neat idea anyway ! Thanks -- Regards Cliff On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:51:07PM +0300, Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
Hi
Get the latest KDE, install, start k-mail, import all e-mails.. You will preserve mail-folders too... Worked for us.
Jaska.
Viestiss Tiistai 30. Lokakuuta 2001 22:41, Cliff Sarginson kirjoitti:
Here is a challenge. Does anyone know of any way in which a fairly large number of emails kept in Microsoft Outlook Express folders can be converted into conforming mailbox format mail files ? Apart from forwarding every one of them to someone who uses mailbox format that is !
On 30 Oct 2001 21:41:05 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Here is a challenge. Does anyone know of any way in which a fairly large number of emails kept in Microsoft Outlook Express folders can be converted into conforming mailbox format mail files?
Evolution from Ximian Gnome will let you do this. I've never tried it, since I don't have any OE files to convert. You select "Import File" from the File menu and it pops up a dialog that will guide you through the process. It will put the end result in an mbox file under your evolution directory, along with some xml files for metadata. Daniel
Hi,
I converted my OE folders to mbox files with libdbx
it supplies two handy utilities readdbx and readoe, first of which is only for one dbx file at a time, and the latter for the whole directory full of dbxs.
libdbx can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=18756
if you do not want to install KMail only for that purpose.
baris
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:41:05 +0100
Cliff Sarginson
Here is a challenge. Does anyone know of any way in which a fairly large number of emails kept in Microsoft Outlook Express folders can be converted into conforming mailbox format mail files ? Apart from forwarding every one of them to someone who uses mailbox format that is !
-- Regards Cliff
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