[CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

Robert kerplop at sbcglobal.net
Tue Mar 11 16:55:21 UTC 2008


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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