-----Original Message----- From: Ewan Leith [mailto:ewan@longwords.org] Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2002 08:08 To: Harvey Kelly Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] windoze -> SuSE
3) Obviously I've collected mail - I'm using Outlook. Can I convert this when I go back to Linux? Oh I miss Mutt.
Please help and get me out of this windoze nightmare! I've forgotten how many crashes I've had, but enough is enough.
Thanks
Harvey
This is doable, but only in a roundabout way that i know of.
Using Outlook Express, import your Outlook emails, contacts, etc. Then using netscape on windows import the outlook express database, then, in netscape in linux, import the netscape directory.
From netscape under linux, you can then import the mails into other clients quite easily (I highly recommend the latest Evolution from www.ximian.com)
Ewan
What Ewan proposes does work, but it is a real pain. I have just converted my Outlook messages & address book to Evolution. One thing to watch out for is Outlook created Contacts and Inbox sub-folders. Anything in a sub-folder of Contacts and second level Inbox sub-folders will not always get converted eg: Contacts | -> SubA | -> SubB You should move or copy everything from SubA & SubB to Contacts before conversion. Inbox | -> SubA | -> Sub1 You should move or copy everything from Sub1 to SubA or Inbox before conversion. HTH Dave