Hi,
i need to import mails from outlook express .dbx files to thunderbird, kmail or and other email client.
thanks.
Fatih Olcer wrote:
Hi,
i need to import mails from outlook express .dbx files to thunderbird, kmail or and other email client.
thanks.
Google: +import +outlook +mail +thunderbird
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_and_exporting_your_mail
HTH
Mike
On 22/09/05, Mike McCarty mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Fatih Olcer wrote:
Hi,
i need to import mails from outlook express .dbx files to thunderbird, kmail or and other email client.
Google: +import +outlook +mail +thunderbird
You could also use DbxConv to convert Outlook DBX formats to mbox:
http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html
If you need to do similar with Outlook PST you can use libpst:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox
Will.
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 01:17, Fatih Olcer wrote:
i need to import mails from outlook express .dbx files to thunderbird, kmail or and other email client.
If you can still run outlook to access them, fire up dovecot as an imap server on the Centos side, add a new account pointing to it in the outlook client, and just drag the messages over to a folder or even the inbox on the imap account. After that you can access them from any imap-capable client without any conversions - or several different ones at the same time if you want.
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 01:17, Fatih Olcer wrote:
i need to import mails from outlook express .dbx files to thunderbird, kmail or and other email client.
If you can still run outlook to access them, fire up dovecot as an imap server on the Centos side, add a new account pointing to it in the outlook client, and just drag the messages over to a folder or even the inbox on the
I dont think this actually works as advertised. You cant move folders over - client limitation. So you need to create your folder tree manually and then move emails for each folder across. Which is not a problem if you have a few folders - but if there are a few dozen's of them .....
Does thunderbird not have an 'import emails from Outlook' option anymore ? Just run that on the Windows machine ( if the windows machine is still available, and you are not doing this exercise from a backup media ), then move the mail storage tree from under thunderbird over to the linux side of things. ( the fact that kmail was mentioned seems to indicate the target machine runs linux, i might be wrong ).
- K
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 01:17, Fatih Olcer wrote:
i need to import mails from outlook express .dbx files to thunderbird, kmail or and other email client.
If you can still run outlook to access them, fire up dovecot as an imap server on the Centos side, add a new account pointing to it in the outlook client, and just drag the messages over to a folder or even the inbox on the
---------- I dont think this actually works as advertised. You cant move folders over - client limitation. So you need to create your folder tree manually and then move emails for each folder across. Which is not a problem if you have a few folders - but if there are a few dozen's of them ..... Does thunderbird not have an 'import emails from Outlook' option anymore? Just run that on the Windows machine ( if the windows machine is still available, and you are not doing this exercise from a backup media ), then move the mail storage tree from under thunderbird over to the linux side of things. ( the fact that kmail was mentioned seems to indicate the target machine runs linux, i might be wrong ). - K ----------
Another thing that might be helpful, (or might not be at all). If you have both Outlook Express & Outlook on the computer, you can start up Outlook and it will ask you if you want to import your Outlook Express account(as long as you don't have any profile already setup). Once you do this, your emails will be stored in a PST file...which seems to be easier to work with rather than Outlook Express's DBX files. Just a thought...
--Bill
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 08:45, Bill Baird wrote:
i need to import mails from outlook express .dbx files to thunderbird, kmail or and other email client.
If you can still run outlook to access them, fire up dovecot as an imap server on the Centos side, add a new account pointing to it in the outlook client, and just drag the messages over to a folder or even the inbox on the
I dont think this actually works as advertised. You cant move folders over - client limitation. So you need to create your folder tree manually and then move emails for each folder across. Which is not a problem if you have a few folders - but if there are a few dozen's of them ..... Does thunderbird not have an 'import emails from Outlook' option anymore? Just run that on the Windows machine ( if the windows machine is still available, and you are not doing this exercise from a backup media ), then move the mail storage tree from under thunderbird over to the linux side of things. ( the fact that kmail was mentioned seems to indicate the target machine runs linux, i might be wrong ).
If the number of folders was practical to create on a disposable client, I'd expect it to be practical to duplicate them on a more permanent server that might survive many different clients. That may not be what the original poster was planning, but that's what I'd recommend. If you later need to move to a different server, there are utilities to do that.
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