Maybe a link to the mozilla or better yet the netscape documentation. I just cut and pasted from there. Carl P. On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 17:06, tickticker wrote: > Should this go on the plug site? It's looks fairly complete. It might be a good start for a wiki. > > anthony > > From: Carl Parrish > Date: 2003/06/04 Wed PM 07:48:11 EDT > To: Plug-discuss > Subject: Re: Converting MS Outlook Address Book to Evolution > > Importing Mail Messages > > To import mail messages from Netscape Communicator, Outlook, Outlook > Express, or Eudora, begin from the Mail window: > > 1. Open the Tools menu, and choose Import. You see the Import Wizard. > 2. Follow the instructions to import mail messages. > > For Netscape Communicator, the wizard imports a copy of all Communicator > mail folders included under Local Folders. Imported mail is added as a > new folder under Local Folders in the Mail window. (The Communicator > mail folders still remain in their original location). > > Importing Mail Settings > > To import mail settings from Outlook, Outlook Express, or Eudora, begin > from the Mail window: > > 1. Open the Tools menu, and choose Import. You see the Import Wizard. > 2. Follow the instructions to import mail settings. > > > Importing Address Books > > If you have a Netscape 6 address book from another user profile or > computer, or if you have an address book from a previous version of > Netscape Communicator or another mail program, you can import its > entries into the Address Book window as a new address book. Keep in mind > that when you upgrade a user profile from an earlier version of > Netscape, your address books are automatically included, so there's no > need to import them. > > You can import address books from Communicator, Netscape 6, Eudora, > Outlook, Outlook Express, or text files (LDIF, tab-delimited (.tab), > comma-separated (.csv), or text (.txt) formats). When you import an > address book, Mail & Newsgroups creates a new address book with the > imported entries. > > You can also import mail messages and settings from Communicator, > Eudora, Outlook, and Outlook Express. > > To import an address book, begin from the Mail window: > > 1. Open the Tools menu, and choose Import. You see the Mail Import > Wizard. > 2. Follow the instructions to import address books. > 3. > > Tip: Communicator address book files (pab.na2) are stored in your > user profile directory (for example, C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users, > where \Users contains the user profiles directories). > > [ Return to beginning of section ] > > > Exporting Address Books > > You can export a Netscape address book if you later want to import it > into another user profile, move it to another computer, or use it with > another program that can import address books. You can export an address > book to one of these file formats: Netscape (.ldif), tab-delimited > (.tab), comma-separated (.csv), or text (.txt) formats. > > To export an address book, begin from the Address Book window: > > 1. Select the address book that you want to export. > 2. Open the Tools menu, and choose Export. > 3. In the Export Address Book dialog box, browse to the location > where you want to save the address book file. > 4. Choose the file format for the exported address book (.ldif, > comma-separated, or tab-delimited). > 5. Enter a name for the address book file. Be sure to include the > appropriate file extension (.ldif, .csv, .tab, or .txt). > 6. Click Save. > > > I'll look for that URL for you. > > > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:47, George Gambill wrote: > > Carl, > > > > First, I couldn't find the "official answer (and it was easy) on the ximian > > site". Looked all over "http://www.ximian.com". Would you by any chance > > have a URL? > > > > Second, I installed (on my Win2K box) Mozilla 1.3.1 (Browser). I can't seem > > to find a way to import (Outlook Contacts or Messages) into Mozilla. I'm > > not finding a import (or export) function in the menus. Any help you could > > provide here will be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Craig, > > > > We "are" talking "Address Book" (contacts) but you introduce an interesting > > thought (messages). I looked through the PLUG archives for the last year > > and didn't find any threads on the topic. 8-( > > > > I downloaded and installed (Win2K box) Netscape 7.02 (browser). I am not > > finding an "import" (of export) function. Could you give me some key > > strokes for this? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "then drag the > > address book over to Linux". > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > --__--__-- > > > > Message: 4 > > Subject: Re: Converting MS Outlook Address Book to Evolution > > From: Carl Parrish > > To: Plug-discuss > > Date: 30 May 2003 10:40:41 -0700 > > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > There is an official answer (and it was easy) on the ximian site. But > > all I did was import from Outlook to Mozilla then Import from Mozilla to > > evolution. (I believe evolution uses the same mbox format we do). > > > > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 10:22, George Gambill wrote: > > Looking at the Export/Import routines of both systems it seems that: > > > > Evolution can import: > > Outlook Express 4 (.mbx) > > VCard (.vcf, .gcrd) > > LDAP (Data Interchange Format (.ldif) > > MBox (.mbox) > > iCalander Files (.ics) > > > > MS Outlook Can Export: > > Comma Separated Values (DOS) > > Comma Separated Values (Win) > > Tab Separated Values (DOS) > > Tab Separated Values (Win) > > dBase > > MS Access (.mdb) > > MS Excel > > MS FoxPro (.dbf) > > Personal Folder (.pst) > > > > Anyone know of a data conversion routine (preferably on Linux) that can > > create (from MS Outlook) to one of the Evolution data structures??? > > > > I have spent hours googling for such a critter. 8-( > > > > Thanks > > > > George > > > > --__--__-- > > > > Message: 5 > > Subject: Re: Converting MS Outlook Address Book to Evolution > > From: Craig White > > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > Organization: > > Date: 30 May 2003 10:40:50 -0700 > > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 10:22, George Gambill wrote: > > > Looking at the Export/Import routines of both systems it seems that: > > > > > ... snip ... > > ---- > > If we are talking Address Book (Outlook refers to them as Contacts) then > > ldif should work as long as you convert the line endings to proper unix > > format CR/LF to LF > > > > My method was to run Netscape on Windows, import the contacts using > > Netscape on Windows and then drag the address book over to Linux and > > import that into Netscape/Mozilla and Evolution can import that. > > > > If you are talking mail...we have discussed that in the not to recent > > past. > > > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss