Hi,
A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD
I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird?
Cheers,
Niki
Have you tried the Thunderbird import tool?? It has a Outlook toggle and should handle the file.. It is under the tools drop down, and is called Import...
john plemons
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD
I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird?
Cheers,
Niki _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
John Plemons wrote:
Have you tried the Thunderbird import tool?? It has a Outlook toggle and should handle the file.. It is under the tools drop down, and is called Import...
Isn't it just when you run Thunderbird on Windows that you have this tool? My Linux thunderbird can only import from Communicator 4.x (whatever that is).
Mogens
Seems to be so.... Communicator is an older version of Netscape.
I would post your question on the Mozilla.org forum and / or check the site for other import utilities.. Also mozilla.com
john plemons
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
John Plemons wrote:
Have you tried the Thunderbird import tool?? It has a Outlook toggle and should handle the file.. It is under the tools drop down, and is called Import...
Isn't it just when you run Thunderbird on Windows that you have this tool? My Linux thunderbird can only import from Communicator 4.x (whatever that is).
Mogens
From Mozilla...
Linux utilities
There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/tools.php , libpst http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/Libpst and Outport http://outport.sourceforge.net/ . Thunderbird uses a separate mbox file for each folder to store all of the messages for that folder. None of those utilities seem to be under active development and they only support some of the versions of .pst files. You can use the ImportExporttools http://nic-nac-project.de/%7Ekaosmos/mboximport-en.html extension to import the mbox files.
john plemons
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
John Plemons wrote:
Have you tried the Thunderbird import tool?? It has a Outlook toggle and should handle the file.. It is under the tools drop down, and is called Import...
Isn't it just when you run Thunderbird on Windows that you have this tool? My Linux thunderbird can only import from Communicator 4.x (whatever that is).
Mogens
John Plemons wrote: ...
There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/tools.php , libpst
...
Outlook _Express_ doesn't use .pst files, Outlook does.
Mogens
Might be a stretch, but can you convert the Outlook Express Files into Outlook .pst format? From there you may get you conversion...
john
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
John Plemons wrote: ...
There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/tools.php , libpst
...
Outlook _Express_ doesn't use .pst files, Outlook does.
Mogens
Have you looked at the extension "ImportExportTools"?
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
John Plemons wrote: ...
There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/tools.php , libpst
...
Outlook _Express_ doesn't use .pst files, Outlook does.
Mogens
John Plemons a écrit :
There are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/tools.php , libpst http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/Libpst and Outport http://outport.sourceforge.net/ . Thunderbird uses a separate mbox file for each folder to store all of the messages for that folder. None of those utilities seem to be under active development and they only support some of the versions of .pst files.
The Outlook Express mailboxes I want to import are .dbx files.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD
I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird?
Taking a different approach than others...
Load them back into Outlook Express on a Windows box. Open a gmail account and enable it for IMAP access. Configure Outlook Express for gmail/IMAP and copy the messages to gmail folders. Configure T-Bird on CentOS for gmail/IMAP and copy from gmail to Local Folders. Hopefully you don't have several Gigs of messages. If you already have an IMAP enabled mail account somewhere else, you could use that too.
Jeff Larsen wrote:
Taking a different approach than others...
Load them back into Outlook Express on a Windows box. Open a gmail account and enable it for IMAP access. Configure Outlook Express for gmail/IMAP and copy the messages to gmail folders. Configure T-Bird on CentOS for gmail/IMAP and copy from gmail to Local Folders. Hopefully you don't have several Gigs of messages. If you already have an IMAP enabled mail account somewhere else, you could use that too.
no need for gmail if he has a machine that can run an imap server (dovecot, courier, ...), as this would be faster.
and yes, if the mailbox is large, that'll take a loooooong time. I don't know which outlook* variants can copy multiple folders at once. Last time I had to do this, I needed to copy folders one at a time and when I reached the last folder, I left the machine for one day... (that was with some outlook 200?).
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008, mouss wrote:
Jeff Larsen wrote:
Taking a different approach than others...
Load them back into Outlook Express on a Windows box. Open a gmail account and enable it for IMAP access. Configure Outlook Express for gmail/IMAP and copy the messages to gmail folders. Configure T-Bird on CentOS for gmail/IMAP and copy from gmail to Local Folders. Hopefully you don't have several Gigs of messages. If you already have an IMAP enabled mail account somewhere else, you could use that too.
no need for gmail if he has a machine that can run an imap server (dovecot, courier, ...), as this would be faster.
and yes, if the mailbox is large, that'll take a loooooong time. I don't know which outlook* variants can copy multiple folders at once. Last time I had to do this, I needed to copy folders one at a time and when I reached the last folder, I left the machine for one day... (that was with some outlook 200?).
My normal method of getting mail from an Exchange or other IMAP server to a local Maildir store is with a python script that logs into the remote IMAP server, queries for all the folders, then copies all the messages to the local Maildir (which is usually served by courier-map).
We *STRONGLY* recommend that people leave their mail on the IMAP server, not on their desktop machines as (a) it's on a reliable server, not the Microsoft Virus Windows, (b) it's easy to move to a new desktop machine with minimal hassle, and (c) it's available via webmail or remote secure IMAP when away from the desk.
Over the years I've written scripts to convert from a variety of mail stores to Maildir including standard Unix mail files, U.W. IMAP binary mbx format, kmail, etc.
As I remember the original posting was talking about mail stored in Microsoft's proprietary binary format, I think the same one used by Access and Exchange servers. I have never tackled recovering data from these formats, and Friends don't let Friends do Windows.
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Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD
I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird?
Cheers,
Niki
Another alternative comes to mind. Kmail is pretty handy at importing from other clients' formats. Outlook Express is supposedly one of them. If you can get the mail into Kmail, moving it to Thunderbird should be a breeze.
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