[CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

[Jeff Larsen]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at 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