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. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 It is surprising how much new stuff users find that developers never do. You put a copy in front of a normal user and they find all these bugs that you would think developers would find. The real users and developers are completely different species as far as I am concerned. --Linux creator Linus Torvalds